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from Down East Books
Dark Harbor House
by TOM DEMARCO
". . . brimming with high spirits and rollicking
good humor. A delightful tale about what is surely paradise on earth —
a summer in Maine."
— Tess Gerritsen, author of Gravity
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By the coast of Maine in the late 1940s
For Liam Dwyer, collegian and would-be aesthete,
the Forsythe's summer-long house party had intriguing possibilities. He
had hopes it might turn out as a simple little love story, with himself
and the lovely Laura as principals. Only nothing was ever simple with
Laura. Nothing.
Recalling the lost splendor of an earlier age when the grand
stone "cottages" of the rich and famous dotted Maine's coast,
Dark Harbor House is an engaging comedy of manners whose quixotic and
memorable characters come vividly to life.
" . . . a charming and amusing tale about the
triumph of lighthearted goodness over the forces of darkness. Never
has a young man's loss of innocence seemed so sweet and touching. Expecting
from the title yet another grisly thriller, I was enchanted to discover
a sunlit ruin of a summer mansion, full of quirky characters pursuing
hilarious private obsessions. I missed this book whenever I had to put
it down, and rushed to get back to it."
— Lisa Alther, author of Kinflicks and
Other Women
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