The Summerboy

by Robert Lipsyte

Book Overview

Eighteen-year-old Bobby Marks has landed the summer job of a lifetime--driving a truck for Lenape Laundry, where no summer resident has ever worked. The longer he works, the uglier the secrets about... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060238887
• ISBN13: 9780060238889
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

The best in the series

I've read all of Bobby Marks adventures and this is his hour of humanity. Bobby's 18 now and finds work at the local laundry service where he thinks his summer will be full of girl's and bar fights. He's hired by Sinclair, the new owner who he believes to be a great guy. Joanie returns from Europe as her family has gotten richer from invetments. Bobby goes to a party at her house and sees Sinclair with a woman who's not his wife. Bobby's summer gets harder when his father begins to grow sicker after an operation. As he's dealing with this, Joanie has him lie for her as to where she is to her parents. As Bobby goes on route with one of the other workers, he sees Sinclair with a girl and kiss her. As the girl turns, Bobby sees that it's Joanie. A week later, Joanie tells him she's pregnant. A day before, Bobby learned that his father is getting worse and the workers of the laundry keep getting hurt by faulty equiptment. Now Bobby has to decide what to do to save his friend and how to lead the local workers. This book delt with darker elements then the previous two such as adultry and abortion in the 50's but Bobby rises to all the challenges thrown his way showing he has matured from "The Crisco Kid" to "The Summerboy."