A CAPTIVATING READ . . . WINDCHILL SUMMER HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS. . . . A LITTLE MYSTERY, SOME HUMOR,[AND] A DASH OF CHARM.The Denver PostWONDERFULLY SATISFYING AND APPEALING . . . Its the summer of 1969 in a place called Sweet Valley, Arkansas. Cherry and Baby [are] soon to be college seniors at the dinky university just a few miles away. . . . It all looks like a pleasant, predictable American life, but a long second look reveals that things arent exactly what they seem to be. . . . [Mailer] loves her characters, and we fall in love with them, too.The Washington Post Book WorldIN GENTLY ROLLING SOUTHERN CADENCES, MAILER CAPTURES THE HORMONAL UPS AND DOWNS OF YOUNG WOMEN TEETERING ON THE VERGE OF ADULTHOOD.Entertainment WeeklyTHIS WINSOME COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL OFFERS MUCH TO MANY. Cherry, the narrator, is my kind of woman: good-looking, straight-talking, and able to describe what its like to get amorous when youre wearing ten thousand petticoats. Most important, shes willing to decide for herself whats true.ELIZABETH BERGSMOOTHLY WRITTEN, SWEETLY SENTIMENTAL.The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
