That Summer is Drury’s one and only attempt at writing romance. He all but created the genre in the 60s when he was at the height of his career. That Summer is the most personal and passionate book from one of America's master novelists.Īre you looking for a story full of a small town political intrigue, “old school” summer romance, with a dash of a murder mystery on top? Then look no further than That Summer by Allen Drury.Īllen Drury is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author known as a master of political thriller novels. The people of Greenmont make it clear to the Major that friendship is not enough.įrom nasty small skirmishes, Allen Drury draws his vicious little society into a ruthless battle of frightening proportions and violent consequences. Major Steele tries to establish a gentle friendship with Eliza, recognizing that her emotions are as complicated and defenseless as his own. They see him as the perfect final solution to the increasingly serious problem of their favorite daughter, Elizavetta - at 35, kind and pretty, but unmarried.

He is fleeing his own personal demons, but the people of Greenmont have their own plans for him. Major Bill Steele arrives there as an outsider, lonely and shaken after a painful and humiliating divorce. Greenmont is a millionaire's hideaway, a super-civilized encampment for the privileged few, but dangerous currents run beneath its affluent exterior. In That Summer, Allen Drury turns from the world of international politics to the private politics of Greenmont, an exclusive vacation colony high in the California Sierras where an intense love story is played out against tribal country-club mores and tragic social pressures. A moving novel of small-town politics and dark secrets from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Advise and Consent.

Author allen drury