Summer at the Resort: Remembering the Fifties

By Henry Grady Starnes

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965761304
• ISBN13: 9780965761307
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Starnes Publishing Co.
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

It captures the inexperience and frustration of the fifties

Summer at the Resort is a time capsule. It preserves the peculiar hunger and greed, self consciousness and doubt of a generation poised on the edge of the Korean War, other Communist threats , and patriotic paranoia. As the young characters cycle between labor and lust in the resort world, they play out the dispair, cynicism, and fear that were gripping the larger socity. In response to these stressful times, many young men who felt they would become involved in the war tried to live their lives to the fullest. The characters of this novel by their actions reflect not only the wild behavior of the era's young men and women, but that mind-set that gripped the nation. The author captures the inexperience, frustration, and awkwardness of young men suddenly exposed-as staff members at a summer resort-to more drinking and wild living that they had ever imagined. They soon learn that the resort's sex ratio of four women to each man doesn't always work in their favor, and thus their nightly search for pleasure is often aimless and unrewarding.