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Original Title: | The Last Convertible |
ISBN: | 0060934050 (ISBN13: 9780060934057) |
Edition Language: | English |
Anton Myrer
Paperback | Pages: 624 pages Rating: 4.24 | 1742 Users | 138 Reviews
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Anton Myrer's beloved, bestselling novel of America's World War II generation is as powerful now as it was upon its publication. An immediate classic, it tells the story of five Harvard men, the women they loved -- and the elegant car that came to symbolize their romantic youth. It is also the story of their coming-of-age in the dark days of World War II, and of their unshakable loyalty to a lost dream of Camelot, of grace and style, in the decades that followed. "The Last Convertible is a gripping tribute to a way of living that immortalized the "Greatest Generation."
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Title | : | The Last Convertible |
Author | : | Anton Myrer |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 624 pages |
Published | : | May 1st 2002 by Harper Perennial (first published March 1978) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Classics. Romance |
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Ratings: 4.24 From 1742 Users | 138 ReviewsDiscuss About Books The Last Convertible
I liked this book. Read it a long, long time ago. A book I need to read again.2014- You can't go home again, or at least not always. I do so love this book, but this time through, the central device struck me as a little shopworn, the ending rushed and annoying from the standpoint that these characters are summing up their lives and they are younger at the end of the book than I am now. But the achingly nostalgic tone, the homage to the music of the protagonist's adolescence, that car, oh, that car... all of that still works for me, and will keep me coming back again and
A guys book, college buddies in the 1940s Harvard class and how their friendships and inner resentions affect their lives. Amazingly drawn characters who could be translated into any generation of college guys with a few updates. The DEFINITIVE novel of college maleness...

I wasn't sure in the beginning because I felt it kinda dragged and there were too many characters to follow. But I eventually became invested in them and wanted to know what happened.
One of my favorite books.
An unexpected pleasure. Have owned it for several years and was always tentative because I worried it would be to hokey or too sentimental. Those concerns weren't completely unfounded, but the story moves along and the characters are mostly interesting. It's long, but generally rewarding. Out-of-print, so you'll need to track down a used copy.
A wonderful book and one of my favorite novels ever. It's the story of five boys who meet at Harvard in the fall of 1940 and there lives for the next thirty-five years or so. The characters are all interesting and it is a great book to read.
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