Summer crossing

By Steve Tesich

Subjects: Fathers and sons, J Fiction, High school athletes, Male authors, Teenage boys, First loves, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, High school students, Fiction, thrillers, suspense

Description: It is about a young man, Daniel Boone Price (a high school wrestler), coming of age, feeling the joy and loss of first love, leaving his drab Middle Western Indiana home and going out into the world to become a writer. It is played out against the concurrent death by cancer of Daniel's bitter father.