Summer of '42

"A chronicle of one summer in a boy's coming of age"-the international bestselling classic that became the basis for the Oscar-winning film (Medium).

Captivating and evocative, Herman Raucher's semi-autobiographical tale has been made into a record-breaking Academy Award-winning hit movie, adapted for the stage, and enchanted readers for generations.

In the summer of 1942, Hermie is fifteen. He is wildly obsessed with sex, and passionately in love with an "older woman" of twenty-two, who...