Summerland
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Michael Chabon. Summerland
Contents
1 The Worst Ballplayer in the History of Clam Island, Washington
2 A Hot Prospect
3 A Whistled-up Wind
4 The Middling
5 Escape
6 Thor’s Crossing
7 The Eighteenth Giant Brother
8 Taffy
9 A Game of Catch
10 Mr. Feld in the Winterlands
11 The Herald
12 The Royal Traitor
13 The Housebreakers of Dandelion Hill
14 A Mother’s Tears
15 Grim
16 A Rat in the Walls
17 The Research of Mr. Feld
18 On Three Reubens Field
19 The Lost Camps
20 Rancho Encantado
21 Jennifer T. and the Wormhole
22 The Bottom-Cat
23 The Conquest of Outlandishton
24 Applelawn
25 A Game of Worlds
Epilogue. Life, the World, and Baseball, in the Days After the Flood
About the Author
Praise
Also by the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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MICHAEL CHABON
Summerland
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Just now it seemed like an inviting kind of place to go and feel ashamed. He would sit there for a couple of hours, hating himself, and then by the time the police found him, his father would be so worried that he would have forgotten and forgiven Ethan’s cowardice, and his failure as a ballplayer. He would see how upset and afraid Little League was making Ethan. “What was I thinking?” he would say. “Of course you can quit the team, son. I only want what’s best for you.”
By the time Ethan reached Hotel Beach, he was feeling almost happy in his sadness, and had forgotten all about the bushbaby. He came out of the woods onto the sand and stood for a moment. Then he walked out onto the beach. The sand was dense and crunchy under his shoes. He sat down on the great gnarled log of driftwood where he and his father had sat to eat their lunch the day they visited. It was a real grandfather log, the wreck of some enormous old tree, spiked with snapped branches. He had just noticed the strange, cold sting of the wind, and the grey clouds that were blowing in from the Olympic range, when he heard voices nearby. He ducked back into the trees, listening. They were the voices of men, and there was a raucous note in them that struck Ethan as harsh and somehow hostile. Carefully, keeping low, he inched his way towards the ruined cabins.
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