Beach Party Days

This is a novel about friendship. While many books have been written about friendship between and among women, this book is about friendship among four men - a unique friendship that survived to overcome distances of time and place. The story is written from a decidedly male perspective and at times the text may seem coarse or crude.

The novel relates how four men began a friendship as teenagers in the late Fifties. Then because of circumstances they went in separate directions, but many years later rediscovered their friendship with the help of the Internet.

The four friends in this story were not unaffected by the dramatic changes in the Sixties; yet the grounding they had from the culture of the Fifties decade enabled them to hold on to a sense of romanticism about those years, and to some degree a yearning for the simpler, more sheltered, and wholesome era that was indelibly etched in their memories. While the times are remembered for the age of innocence and optimism, it was also the beginning of increased teenager independence and the seeds of youthful rebellion that flourished in the Sixties.

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