Labor Day Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Joyce Maynard
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
489

Labor Day by Joyce Maynard Book Summary

“Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Keeping Faith

In a manner evoking Ian McEwan's Atonementand Nick Hornby's About a Boy, acclaimed author Joyce Maynard weaves a beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenage boy—and the man he later becomes—looking back at an unexpected encounter that begins one single long, hot, life-altering weekend.

With the end of summer closing in and a steamy Labor Day weekend looming in the town of Holton Mills, New Hampshire, thirteen-year-old Henry—lonely, friendless, not too good at sports—spends most of his time watching television, reading, and daydreaming about the soft skin and budding bodies of his female classmates. For company Henry has his long-divorced mother, Adele—a onetime dancer whose summer project was to teach him how to foxtrot; his hamster, Joe; and awkward Saturday-night outings to Friendly's with his estranged father and new stepfamily. As much as he tries, Henry knows that even with his jokes and his "Husband for a Day" coupon, he still can't make his emotionally fragile mother happy. Adele has a secret that makes it hard for her to leave their house, and seems to possess an irreparably broken heart.

But all that changes on the Thursday before Labor Day, when a mysterious bleeding man named Frank approaches Henry and asks for a hand. Over the next five days, Henry will learn some of life's most valuable lessons: how to throw a baseball, the secret to perfect piecrust, the breathless pain of jealousy, the power of betrayal, and the importance of putting others—especially those we love—above ourselves. And the knowledge that real love is worth waiting for.

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Book Name Labor Day
Genre Fiction & Literature
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Language English
E-Book Size 816.2 KB

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labor day. I loved this book. Recommended it to my book club and they loved it too. Lots of interesting story lines and great characters. You will love the narrator. He is every young teenage boy you know. Wonderful book.

Loved it. Amazing on so many different levels

Loved it!. Really enjoyed this book.. It has lots of interesting stories and great characters.. Wonderful! :)

It was okay. This book was weird to me. The whole beginning of this love story was too far fetched. I did fall in love with the main characters. It wasn't one of those page-turning novels I'm accustomed to. I read it at my leisure.

Great but odd. Amazing and awesome story! There is some sexual material including a young teens thoughts of his fellow peers without there clothe see on on a regular basis. Due to this as a teen male I found it not appropriate for young girls they would not be able to relate to these suggestive scenes. Also there is some suggestive profanity that will offend most people.Take caution but enjoy if your 15+ My rating: PG-13: thematic material involving adultery, some sexuality and suggestive content and dialogue,brief strong language, brief violence, and intense scenes throughout- all involving adults and teens

Excellent. Really warm story. Enjoyed.

Labor Day. I loved it.

great read. really enjoyed this book!

Loved it. Its a 'snack', but a beautiful love story. They're filming the movie with Kate Winslet in my town right now. The house is perfectly cast.

Decent Read. It was a good book. I found the ending rushed and would of like more follow up.

Labor Day.. What a wonderful book to get lost in! I loved it!

Just ok. I didn't enjoy people as much as I anticipated I would. It was a little slow and didn't capture my attention as well as I thought. But I did have to read it to the end.

Labor Day. Loved the book so much that I hated to see it end..more than a story of a young man growing up, it is a beautiful love story..

LOVED THIS BOOK!. Best book I've read in a while!

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Summary of Labor Day by Joyce Maynard

The Labor Day book written by Joyce Maynard was published on 28 July 2009, Tuesday in the Fiction & Literature category. A total of 489 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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