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Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for his radiant novel in stories, Mary and O’Neil, Justin Cronin was already hailed as an author of astonishing gifts. Today Cronin’s new book, Summer Time Guest, fulfills that promise—and more. With a rare mixture of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical elegance, Cronin changes the easy tale of the dying man’s last desire right into a rich tapestry of family love. On an evening in late summer, the truly amazing financier Harry Wainwright, approaching the finish of his life, gets to a rustic fishing camp in a rural section of Maine.