Steve Kluger

Last Days of Summer

Jacalyn Boggs

The Last Days fo Summer by Steve Kluger is not the sort of book I would normally pick up and buy to read. You can probably fill my knowledge of baseball on the page under the title. However, a good friend recommended this to me and even went as far as to get me a copy.

I could not put the book down. It was excellent and captured my mind and my heart as I followed through roughly two years in the characters lives.

Seldom do characters come so alive as they do in this book. I found myself laughing at the hijinks, worrying, and in the end even crying. 

The story is told in the form of news clippings, letters, and even a few Q and A's. The correspondance goes between an early teen boy from Brooklyn, a baseball player, the White House, and a few other people.

I'm not sure what I liked more, the creativity of the boy in his correspondance or his tenacity to get what he wanted. 

If you want a darn good book, here it is. It would be an excellent read for any book club. Just be prepared to laugh and cry and lose a day reading it because you cannot put the darned thing down.

Thank goodness I didn't have other things to do like Christmas cards or something.

Last Days of Summer

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