After being betrayed by his lover, Josh Felling heads to the beaches of Provincetown where he encounters a cast of characters including drag queen Emmeline, Hollywood heartthrob Ty Rusk, and wealthy Reilly Brennan, in Michael Thomas Ford's Last Summer, a novel of second chances, self–discovery, and love.
Review
Provincetown—located at the tip of Cape Cod—has long been a haven for gays and lesbians who make the pilgrimage there each summer. With its warm ocean breezes and star–filled summer nights, Provincetown always makes the possibility of a future love seem within reach. Annually, Provincetown attracts more gay visitors than Key West and Fire Island combined—but whatever their reasons may be to visit "P–Town", the gay men and lesbians who flock there each summer always find, and enjoy, a community where their lives take center stage.
At the heart of Last Summer are three men—Joshua Felling, Toby Evans, and Reilly Brennan—who each represent the different perspectives and reasons for being in Provincetown, but whose lives intermingle regardless of their different personalities, ages, and backgrounds. At thirty–three, Josh has become tired of his life, leaving his old self behind with the hope of making a fresh start. Toby, who is only nineteen, finds himself moving to Provincetown to seek solace after his family has kicked him out of his Midwestern home. Reilly, who has been a lifelong resident, is still unclear over his own sexuality and has long wondered what his fantasies about other men might mean.
Everything is about to change when Reilly meets Joshua and the two strike up an odd friendship—that's when Reilly knows, for sure, that he isn't fantasizing anymore. A stunning novel, Michael Thomas Ford's Last Summer is a wondrous story about love, possibility and redemption that readers won't soon forget.
