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Debbie Jones #3
Summer for Two
If Debbie had only had Rachele's address, what a different summer it would have been - for a lot of people! But that address, left in the pocket of Debbie's tennis shorts, had been washed out in the laundry.
Harum-scarum Debbie, waiting on table for the summer at a Cape Cod restaurant, met new ideas, new values, and especially two strange, attractive people, Don and Enid. She need badly to talk it all over with someone who looked at life the way she did. Rachele, who had been her roommate and close friend during their first year at Pine Ridge School, whose father was a famous novelist, who had herself just returned from a year's study in Paris - Rachele might have set Debbie straight about a good many things. And she was right here on the Cape, tantalizingly near, but where?
Having decided that a broken heart would mend, Rachele was fully occupied with the eligible young men at the yacht club, while her fond and practical mother encouraged her to choose just the right husband. As a matter of fact, Rachel needed Debbie desperately too, if only for Debbie to tell her that broken hearts don't mend, not that fast.
And what of Debbie's brother, Phil, who was so violently unwilling to marry a rich girl? If Phil had had Rachele's address... (from dust-jacket)
Harum-scarum Debbie, waiting on table for the summer at a Cape Cod restaurant, met new ideas, new values, and especially two strange, attractive people, Don and Enid. She need badly to talk it all over with someone who looked at life the way she did. Rachele, who had been her roommate and close friend during their first year at Pine Ridge School, whose father was a famous novelist, who had herself just returned from a year's study in Paris - Rachele might have set Debbie straight about a good many things. And she was right here on the Cape, tantalizingly near, but where?
Having decided that a broken heart would mend, Rachele was fully occupied with the eligible young men at the yacht club, while her fond and practical mother encouraged her to choose just the right husband. As a matter of fact, Rachel needed Debbie desperately too, if only for Debbie to tell her that broken hearts don't mend, not that fast.
And what of Debbie's brother, Phil, who was so violently unwilling to marry a rich girl? If Phil had had Rachele's address... (from dust-jacket)
216 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1952
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About the author
Laura Cooper Rendina
12 booksLaura Cooper Rendina was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, went to the public schools in Massachusetts, and was editor of the Cambridge High School magazine. Having made a series of trips to Europe, Tunis, and the Virgin Islands, she eventually settled down in a beach house on Siesta Key, Sarasota (Florida), in 1946. It was here that she wrote all eight of her children's books, beginning with the 1948 Roommates.
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February 17, 2020
Debbie Jones and Rachele Newman, the friends and boarding school roommates introduced in Laura Cooper Rendina's
Roommates
, return in this third installment of the Debbie Jones series, each spending the summer, in their different ways, on Cape Cod. Determined to earn some money, and to help her family pay for her senior year at Pine Ridge School, Debbie takes a job as a waitress at The Manse, an old-fashioned Victorian hotel and restaurant run by an old friend of her mother's; while Rachele, newly returned from her year studying art in Europe, and desperately hurt by her quarrel with Phil (Debbie's brother), goes to stay with her socialite mother and her new husband, and spends her days at the local yacht club. Unable to contact one another - Debbie having lost Rachele's address, and Rachele not knowing Debbie's - the two friends are each unhappy in their own ways, until a surprise encounter begins the ball rolling toward the day when all will be well...
Although it provided pleasant enough of a reading experience, I cannot say that I enjoyed Summer for Two quite as much as Roommates or Debbie Jones , probably because it was missing the school setting of those earlier books - something which drew me to Rendina's series in the first place. There were moments I appreciated - most particularly, the scene in which Rachele realizes just who Harry Devereaux really is, after seeing his dehumanizing snobbery directed at someone (Debbie) for whom she genuinely cares - but having finished it, I do not think I will ever want to pick it up again. Which, since my Inter-Library-Loan copy of it came from the Cincinnati Public Library - as always, my hats off to you, oh librarians! - is probably just as well. Still, despite my lukewarm reaction to this one, I do plan to track down the fourth and final title, My Love for One , to see how it all ends.
Although it provided pleasant enough of a reading experience, I cannot say that I enjoyed Summer for Two quite as much as Roommates or Debbie Jones , probably because it was missing the school setting of those earlier books - something which drew me to Rendina's series in the first place. There were moments I appreciated - most particularly, the scene in which Rachele realizes just who Harry Devereaux really is, after seeing his dehumanizing snobbery directed at someone (Debbie) for whom she genuinely cares - but having finished it, I do not think I will ever want to pick it up again. Which, since my Inter-Library-Loan copy of it came from the Cincinnati Public Library - as always, my hats off to you, oh librarians! - is probably just as well. Still, despite my lukewarm reaction to this one, I do plan to track down the fourth and final title, My Love for One , to see how it all ends.
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