My Autumn of Retro Books continues with this little gem written in 1952 and on it's eighth printing by 1974. Again, like with Love is Never Enough, there is such an authenticity of the era to books actually written as modern day romances of that time. Angie falls in love with a boy who delivers bakery goods in his truck, they sweat it out all summer in a house with no air conditioning, they eat hot dogs on 'rolls' with 'tomato sauce' at the county fair.....There are scenes and settings in these classic romances that can take you back to that time like no other.
Seventeenth Summer is all about 17 year old Angie and her summer before college, as she meets Jack and falls in love.
Books written before the 70's tend to be pretty long winded. Beautifully written with detailed scenes and descriptions of everyday life but they are light on action. This book is 285 pages of small print and nothing more exciting happens than watching Jack court Angie, but because of the incredible descriptions it feels more real than modern romance novels.
If you find this on Ebay - buy it. ( By the way, the price for it in 1974? 75 cents.)
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