Last Days of Summer (novel)

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Last Days of Summer

Author	Steve Kluger
Language	English
Genre	Coming-of-age Historical fiction
Set in	Brooklyn, New York
Publisher	HarperCollins
Publication date	June 1, 1998 (1998-06-01)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	353
ISBN	978-0-061-56481-9
Dewey Decimal	813.54
LC Class	PS3561.L82L37

Last Days of Summer is a 1998 novel written by Steve Kluger. It is an epistolary novel told completely through forms of correspondence; letters, postcards, interviews with a psychiatrist, progress reports, and newspaper clippings.

Taking place in 1940s Brooklyn, the bulk of the novel consists of letters written between fictional New York Giants third baseman Charlie Banks and Jewish twelve-year-old Joey Margolis.