{"product_id":"summer-gonebooks","title":"Summer Gone","description":"A haunting novel about love experienced and love remembered  that is also an unforgettable celebration and evocation of the brief beauty of a  northern summer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSummer Gone\u003c\/i\u003e is about that moment when everything stops. Like skilled  canoeists, we briefly hold a perfect balance - poised between innocence and experience,  life and death, discovery and loss, the promise of spring and the sadness of autumn  - and we believe, foolishly, that those perfect days will last forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Set among  the islands and lakes of  \"cottage country\", this major first novel from one of Canada's  premier writers explores the stories of three generations of lost summers. But \u003ci\u003eSummer  Gone\u003c\/i\u003e is primarily the story of a divorced father and a young son separated by the  silence of estrangement, and how during one extraordinary night on an ill-fated canoe  trip the silence is broken. Yet, as the novel unfolds, tragedy looms over father  and son in ways they could never have imagined, and leads to the book's gripping  and startling conclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSummer Gone\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite novel, beautifully written  and powerfully told.","brand":"Macfarlane, David","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44053287862496,"sku":"","price":11.37,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44507201896672,"sku":"","price":19.77,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/1788395.jpg?v=1686765567","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/summer-gonebooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}