The Summer of Small Accidents

By Andrea Dunlop
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Published: Oct. 05, 2011
Words: 89,716 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465943828

Short description

It's been a very strange summer for Leigh Spencer, a bright, passionate, but restless twenty-six year old woman living in Manhattan. In The Summer of Small Accidents, the city itself becomes a character, from its frenetic nightlife, to its mysterious inhabitants, and a tale is woven of unrequited love, the tyranny of loneliness in a city of millions, and how accidents of fate can shape our lives.

Extended description

The Summer of Small Accidents is the story of one very strange summer in the life of Leigh Spencer, a bright, somewhat melancholy twenty-six year old girl living in Manhattan. As summer nears, everything seems to be wrong in her life: she has few real friends, she hates her job and she has just been forced out of her apartment by her roommate's crazy, self-destructive boyfriend.
While she hunts for an apartment in the wilds of New York real estate, she stays with her friend Shaun, a troubled, frivolous social climber who provides little consistency in her life but plenty of entertainment.When Leigh goes to see an apartment near St. Mark's church, she arrives to find the disheveled, handsome writer Asa Assner, who appears to be a little drunk and having a very bad day indeed. She's beguiled by his mysterious, Byronic manner, and the two spend a chaste but life-altering night together. By the time she wakes up, he's already left for Paris.The two begin writing letters to each other i.. (Read more) The Summer of Small Accidents is the story of one very strange summer in the life of Leigh Spencer, a bright, somewhat melancholy twenty-six year old girl living in Manhattan. As summer nears, everything seems to be wrong in her life: she has few real friends, she hates her job and she has just been forced out of her apartment by her roommate's crazy, self-destructive boyfriend.
While she hunts for an apartment in the wilds of New York real estate, she stays with her friend Shaun, a troubled, frivolous social climber who provides little consistency in her life but plenty of entertainment.When Leigh goes to see an apartment near St. Mark's church, she arrives to find the disheveled, handsome writer Asa Assner, who appears to be a little drunk and having a very bad day indeed. She's beguiled by his mysterious, Byronic manner, and the two spend a chaste but life-altering night together. By the time she wakes up, he's already left for Paris.The two begin writing letters to each other in which Asa slowly reveals the reasons for his hasty departure, and Leigh in turn allows herself to explore some of her own doubts and demons, chief amongst them the pain and indescribable loss she feels from having never known her parents, who died when she was very young. The more those around her reveal themselves, the more mysterious they become, and Leigh is quickly learning that in a city as vast and complicated as New York, people can be connected in the most unexpected ways. The Summer of Small Accidents is a story of unrequited love, the tyranny of loneliness in a city of millions and the ways in which small accidents of fate can shape our lives far more than the choices we make.
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womens fiction, literary fiction, new york

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