The Summer That Melted Everything
Overview
Winner of The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize.
Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984. The year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil. When a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy turns up in Breathed claiming to be Satan himself, everybody assumes he is just a runaway. But when strange things start happening to the townsfolk, there are some who start to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be.
Details
- Format
- Size
- Extent
- ISBN
- RRP
- Pub date
- Paperback
- 198mm x 129mm
- 320 pages
- 9781911344360
- GBP£10.99
- 6 July 2017
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Awards
- Winner of the 2016 Not the Booker prize
- Longlisted for the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Fiction
- Longlisted for the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Debut Goodreads Author
Praise
‘A wildly riffing trumpet voluntary that sustains its thrilling high notes from start to finish … A startlingly rich imagination shouts its glorious arrival in this overwhelming narrative of sin, redemption, love and death.’
About the Author
An Ohio native, Tiffany McDaniel’s writing is inspired by the rolling hills and buckeye woods of the land she knows. She is also a poet, playwright, screenwriter, and artist.
The Summer That Melted Everything
is her debut novel.