Summersea [Mass Market Paperback]

Eileen Lottman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1975

Time Travel Gothic Novel

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Popular Library (1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0445004339
• ISBN-13: 978-0445004337
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,688,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I got lost in the fantasy right along with the heroine, November 23, 2004

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flying_roundhouse (Saratoga, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Summersea (Hardcover)

What a magical book. Once I started, I couldn't stop. When Bianca Wilder decides to prolong a summer job at a resort hotel on the New Jersey shore, she never imagines the world she will find, perfectly tailored to her tastes. The huge, decaying old Victorian that overlooks a superhighway, but stands its ground, and speaks of more than seventy years of golden summer memories.....when all thirty bedrooms were filled, tea was served in the solarium, croquet was played on the sprawling lawn, and the beautifully carved mahogany ballroom doors opened....to the last ball of the season. Now that many guests are dead and gone, the 80 year old owners, Sarah and Andrew support their floundering hotel on social security checks and the kindness of certain purveyors of antiques in town.
Bianca is a film student, who feels like a fish out of water in her own "time". She hates plastic, condominiums, smog, fast food, and womens' libbers. She feels pulled back into Summersea's "time"....and soon, her fantasies of how good it used to be turn into a reality that she can enter, *almost* whenever she wants. In the past, she finds true love, and far more interesting people. But what happens when summer is over? Read and find out!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sticks in your mind forever, September 2, 2008

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Diana Borucki - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Summersea (Hardcover)

this book gets under your skin and in your heart; i have read it many times and love it each time. i even wrote a letter to ms. lottman and got a personal response, that i cherish. one of my all time favorites.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Time Travel Novels Ever, December 11, 2006

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Charles Glover - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Summersea (Mass Market Paperback)

"Summersea was a faded Victorian mansion that beautiful young Bianca fell in love with the moment she entered its doors. The kinfly old couple who owned it, its ghostly elegance, its romantic aura, were far from the modern world that Bianca longed to escape.

"Then, one night, the dreams began, as Bianca moved back through corridors of time to the enchanted year of 1924, where in a wondrous world of eternal summer a handsome lover whirled her in a dance she never wanted to end.

"The present and the past. Illusion and reality. Sanity and madness. Bianca no longer knew which was which, as two different worlds warred for possession of her body and her soul..."

Eileen Lottman created a magical story of love against time. The book was written in 1975, so when read now it sheds light on another time long past, the '70s. Bianca is a college student who isn't happy with the way things are going. When she talks the old couple into letting her spend winter at the inn, she discovers a portal to 1924, and a young man who falls in love with her.

As the semester passes by, she finds herself drawn more and more into the world of 1924, and becomes removed from her present day friends and a part time boyfriend who is more trouble than he's worth. The old couple warn her not to let herself get trapped in the past, but it may be too late. She is hooked.

The writing flows so smoothly you won't want to put it down. You will fall in love with Bianca and the old couple. This is well worth tracking down and it should be brought back into print. It is every bit as entertaining as "Somewhere in Time" by Richard Matheson and "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. Fans of those should check this out. The ending is a bit ambiguous and some of the cultural references are misspelled, but the journey through this book is one you should not miss.