The Summer of Robert Byron
Author | : Steven Arnett |
Publisher | : Steven Arnett |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2017-08-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781370546480 |
ISBN-13 | : 1370546483 |
Rating | : 4/5 (483 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Summer of Robert Byron written by Steven Arnett and published by Steven Arnett. This book was released on 2017-08-13 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s fall 1966, and Robert Byron has returned to his home town of Blue Spring in Michigan after serving in Vietnam. Everyone there tries to welcome him home, but he’s unsocial and ends up alienating almost everyone. He pretty much keeps to himself through the winter, until the money he’d saved up in Vietnam runs outs, and he has to go back to work. He meets Jean Summers, a teacher at Blue Spring High School who’d just started her teaching career the previous fall herself, when Robert is hired by her landlord to do some work on the house she’s renting. They’re complete opposites in personality, but somehow, they’re attracted to each other anyway. The Summer of Robert Byron is their story: Of how Jean tries to redeem through love Robert’s alienation and the dark secret that he has brought home with him from the war. Can she succeed or is it too late to ever really bring him home again?