That Summer (Drury novel)

That Summer

UK first edition
Author Allen Drury
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher Michael Joseph (UK)
Coward-McCann (US)
Publication date
1965 (UK)
1966 (US)
Media type Print (hardcover & paperback)
Pages 293

That Summer is a 1965 novel by political novelist Allen Drury which chronicles melodrama among the elite in the California town of Greenmont.[1][2] It was first published in the United Kingdom by Michael Joseph, and then by Coward-McCann in the United States in 1966.

The 1967 Dell paperback edition featured the tagline, "the new Peyton Place of the California monied set, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Advise and Consent".[3]

References

  1. Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C., eds. (December 17, 1998). Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Press. pp. 229–230. ISBN 1-573-56111-8.
  2. "Drury, Allen (1918 September 2 - 1998 September 2): Biographical History". Online Archive of California. Retrieved January 20, 2015.
  3. Cover: That Summer by Allen Drury (Image). Dell Publishing. 1967. ISBN 0-678-66375-0.


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