Summer camp

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A STRANGE INNOCENCE

It began at the summer camp, when Peggy Matthews and Lilian Parker met in the counselors’ cabin. After that, curiosity and desire had their way, but Peggy had no idea of what she was getting into....

DR. HERBERT GREENE says:

“The SUMMER CAMP is the unforgettable story of an eighteen-year-old girl losing control of her emotions. Her affairs with men as victim, then aggressor ... her affairs with women, tentative, then greedy and unashamed ... are delineated with valid insights. This is nothing less than a classic case history of modern lesbianism.”

Dozens and dozens of fresh-faced kids. Eager young counselors. A friendly nurse and a couple of earnest directors. All are gathered at the swank girls’ camp for a summer of fun.

... And then into the cabins and the tents creeps horror.

The horror of twisted desire, of desperate and sickening cravings.

First the nurse and the directors, then the girl counselors, are victimized by that horror. Finally its fingers reach out brazenly to touch one of the children....

SUMMER CAMP

Anne Herbert

SOFTCOVER LIBRARY, INC. New York, New York

DEPOSITED WITH THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, 1966

All persons named in this work are fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

First printing, 1963 Second printing, 1966

This book is published simultaneously in Canada

Manufactured in the United States of America

SOFTCOVER LIBRARY, INC. New York, N. Y. 10017

To Phil—because it was promised....