The Sound of Summer Voices by Helen Tucker (1969, Hardcover)

The Sound of Summer Voices
by Helen Tucker
Publisher:  Stein and Day
Copyright 1969
Book Club Edition

In the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, here is a southern novel that will charm millions as it makes its author's name known throughout America.

"It was at the beginning of the summer of his twelfth year that Patrick Quincannon Tolson reluctantly came to the conclusion that one of his aunts -- either Athena or Beryl -- was not his aunt at all but his mother."

This is only the first of many "conclusions" that young Patrick comes to in the course of an extraordinary summer.  Deciding that he has been lied to about his supposedly dead mother, he begins -- with the dedication of a superspy -- to untangle the whole fabric of his life by the only means available to a boy growing up in a sheltered southern family:  eavesdropping.

His search for the truth leads him to listen in secretively to the most private conversations of the people who make up his life; to hide in the back seat of the car when one aunt meets her boy friend; to search for pictures of his mothers -- none of which seem to exist.  It also leads him to the cemetery in back of his house to dig away at the earth he has been told contains his mother's body.

Patrick's discovery, the steps leading up to it, make The Sound of Summer Voices a rare and beautiful reading experience of the kind we are allowed to have only once in a very long while.  Remember the name of Patrick Quincannon Tolson, because once you eavesdrop with him, you'll forget he's a character in fiction and think of him as a memory of childhood and an unforgettable part of your own life.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and flaps are tanned from age.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.

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