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Summer of '42 by Herman Raucher
Summer of '42 by Herman Raucher, September 1972,Sphere Books, Great Britain.
Printied in Great Britian, Vintage Paperback and 1st paperback edition.
Summer of '42 began as Raucher's tribute to his real-life friend Oscar Seltzer, who was killed in action in the Korean War while tending a wounded soldier as an Army medic. But it evolved into the retelling of his real-life summer on Nantucket Island, in 1942, and on his friendship with and crush on a woman named Dorothy, who befriended him with her husband until the man went to fight and die in World War II and---in her grief upon learning of her widowhood---slept with Raucher only to leave the island the following day. Raucher has long since revealed that the woman wrote him when the film became a surprise hit, saying she had hoped their unexpected affair hadn't traumatised him.
Raucher was subsequently commissioned to write the novelization and screenplay for Ode to Billie Joe based on the song by Bobbie Gentry. He met with Gentry to learn the reason for the protagonist's suicide, which is not revealed in the song. Gentry replied that she had never come up with a reason.
Printied in Great Britian, Vintage Paperback and 1st paperback edition.
Summer of '42 began as Raucher's tribute to his real-life friend Oscar Seltzer, who was killed in action in the Korean War while tending a wounded soldier as an Army medic. But it evolved into the retelling of his real-life summer on Nantucket Island, in 1942, and on his friendship with and crush on a woman named Dorothy, who befriended him with her husband until the man went to fight and die in World War II and---in her grief upon learning of her widowhood---slept with Raucher only to leave the island the following day. Raucher has long since revealed that the woman wrote him when the film became a surprise hit, saying she had hoped their unexpected affair hadn't traumatised him.
Raucher was subsequently commissioned to write the novelization and screenplay for Ode to Billie Joe based on the song by Bobbie Gentry. He met with Gentry to learn the reason for the protagonist's suicide, which is not revealed in the song. Gentry replied that she had never come up with a reason.
