![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They argue and mishear each other, they attempt to flirt and get massages. In Paper Losses, one of the stories in Moore's latest collection, a divorcing couple travel to an island resort with their family. This book makes the 1960s in provincial France look like the place to go. They cavort (clothed, unclothed, in this position and that) and drink and talk, clearly loth to return to their daily lives. A Sport and a Pastime by James Salterįor some, vacations are all about sex – that is certainly the case for Salter's couple, an American man and a French woman, on the go. The setting is gorgeous – a large house with ample gardens – and the women are wonderfully prickly with each other, softening as the time passes, even as one turns out to be carrying on with another's husband. Von Arnim takes a handful of odd British ladies (one young, one old, two in the middle) to Italy for a month in the sun. It is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a group of friends, starting one summer at camp and stretching out over the following several decades, proving that the choices we make in our youth, however insignificant they seem at the time, set the course for the rest of our lives. I didn't realise that I was mourning the absence of the perfect summer camp novel until Meg Wolitzer's latest novel came out last year. ![]() The Interestings by Meg Wolitzerīetween the ages of seven and 14, I spent every July at sleepaway camp. Here are some of my favorite getaways in fiction – they aren't all successful, of course, but a placid, happy trip rarely makes for compelling reading. ![]()
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