num_pages: 275
description: In everyone's life there is a summer of '42...In that particular summer Hermie was fifteen, wildly obsessed with sex, deeply and passionately in love with an "older woman" of twenty-two. Summer of '42 is the story of Hermie and the lovely Dorothy, of Hermie's frantic efforts to become a man, and of his glorious and heartbreaking initiation into sex.
language: English
title: Summer of '42
titlecomplete: Summer of '42
genres: Fiction, Relationships, War, Coming Of Age, Young Adult, Romance, Classics, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 2020
publisher: Dell