“Best-selling fantasy-author Beagle crafts a tantalizing picture of an atypical Pacific Northwestern couple whose lives are interrupted by myth and mystery. As their heady summer phases into early autumn, Lioness’s mysterious husband appears on the ferry from Seattle, bringing with him the chilly and inevitable resolution to Beagle’s strange and lovely lyric vision.” Lioness’s presence inspires Abe to fulfill his cherished dream of playing second harmonica with a small jazz band and Joanna to learn the dicey sport of kayaking, even though she can’t swim. From the moment she becomes part of their lives, changes-some miraculous, some devastating-begin affecting Abe and Joanna. Abe offers her his old garage as a temporary home. “ Retired history professor Abe Aronson and his longtime lover, Joanna Delvecchio, encounter an enigmatic young beauty, Lioness Lazos, waitressing in a local diner. Beagle has captured that seasonal warmth here, beautifully, magically.” “A rare story of summer that feels like the summer-like dreamy intense passions rising and arcing and then spinning away like beauty underlaid with a tinge of sadness because it is ephemeral.

A Verge Most Exciting Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Coming Out A Washington Post Best Science Fiction and Fantasy to Read in September A Kirkus September 2016 Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction Book You Won't Want to Miss But lingering in Lioness’s past is a dark secret and even summer days must pass. Her new family thrives, even as they may be growing apart. Lioness grows more captivating as the days grow longer. With Lioness in their lives, they are suddenly compelled to explore their deepest dreams and desires. She is taken in by two disenchanted loversdynamic Joanna Delvecchio and scholarly Abe Aronson visited by Joanna’s previously unlucky-in-love daughter, Lily. And as an impossibly beautiful spring leads into a perfect summer, Lioness is drawn to a complicated family. An enigmatic young waitress with strange abilities, when the lovely Lioness comes to Gardner Island even the weather takes notice. It was a typically unpleasant Puget Sound winter before the arrival of Lioness Lazos. Beagle ( The Last Unicorn) returns with this long-anticipated new novel, a beautifully bittersweet tale of passion, enchantment, and the nature of fate.

'A rare story of summer that feels like the summerlike dreamy intense passions rising and arcing and then spinning away like beauty underlaid with a tinge of sadness because it is ephemeral.”īeloved author Peter S.

Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle