The Summer They Came

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There was a time when the seaside town of Long Spit was known only to a few wealthy families and a straggle of New England beachgoers But when gay developers from Manhattan searching for a new place for summer shares and tea dances get a look at its gently curving beaches they hatch an ingenious plan to transform the sleepy Rhode Island hideaway into the next gay hotspot If only someone would tell the townsfolkAs a contingent of gymbuffed and cellphonetoting vacationers descends on the village some locals are outraged others strangely titillated Hollis Wynbourne a reclusive antiques dealer and longtime subject of gossip is drawn from his cocoon by the sight of sunbathing beauties wealthy Wesley Herndon suddenly finds the town overrun with his two favorite attractions frisky hunks and yachts of pedigree and Anthony a callow eighteenyearold embarks on a sentimental education he never expected to get in his own backyard An uproarious sendup of both smalltown provincialism and the absurdities of contemporary gay life The Summer They Came will capture you with its portrait of a town you thought you knew run amuck