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I Know What Y'all Did Terminal Summer
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Author Lois Duncan
Land United States
Linguistic communication English
Genre Young adult fiction, thriller
Published October 1973
Publisher Piddling Brown
Media type Print (hardcover & paperback)
Pages 199 pp (offset edition, hardback)
ISBN 0-316-19546-4 (starting time edition, hardback)
OCLC 640901
LC Grade PZ7.D9117 Iak

I Know What Y'all Did Last Summer is a 1973 suspense novel for young adults by Lois Duncan. A flick accommodation loosely based on the novel was released in 1997.

Plot [edit]

High schoolhouse senior Julie James receives a annotation in the mail that reads, "I know what you lot did last summer". The previous summer, Julie, her and so-boyfriend Ray Bronson, Ray's best friend Barry Cox, and Barry's girlfriend and Julie's best friend Helen Rivers were driving home after partying in the mountains. They accidentally run over and kill a young bicycling boy named David Gregg.[note 1] Afterwards Ray anonymously calls an ambulance for David, the iv make a pact never to tell anyone near their involvement in the incident. Julie and Ray subsequently drift apart from one some other, and Ray moves to California for work. Out of guilt, Julie anonymously sends yellow roses to David'southward funeral.

After receiving the note, Julie visits Helen at her flat. Barry is invited over, and he reassures the girls that it is just a prank and that anyone who knew about their involvement would become to the constabulary instead of leaving notes. Ray returns abode afterwards a year away in California and tries to get back together with Julie. However, she is not interested, and he learns that she is dating Bud, who recently served in the army. The adjacent day, Helen is tanning at her apartment circuitous when she meets Collingsworth "Collie" Wilson, who moved into one of the apartments the day before. After this encounter, Helen finds a magazine cutout of a boy riding a bicycle taped to her flat door. Ray also receives a newspaper clipping in the mail about David Gregg that same 24-hour interval.

On Memorial Day, Barry gets a telephone call from someone offering to sell a motion-picture show the caller says shows a auto hitting David'southward bicycle. They agree to encounter on the athletic field. When Barry gets there, he is shot in the tum by an unknown person. The bullet becomes lodged in his spine and threatens to paralyze him. Julie and Ray meet to discuss the shooting and decide to visit the business firm of David'southward parents to see if they could take been involved. At the Greggs', Ray and Julie use the excuse of auto trouble and Megan, David'southward sis, lets them in. Ray goes into the hallway and pretends to make a call while Julie talks to Megan. She tells Julie that their female parent had a breakdown following David's death and was sent to a hospital in Las Lunas, and their father moved there to exist close to her. When Ray and Julie leave, Julie tells Ray what she found out.

Ray sneaks into the infirmary to visit Barry. Barry lies most the shooting and tells him that someone was trying to rob him, and Ray passes this information along to Helen. When Barry finds out that he will exist able to walk, he calls Helen because he wants to confess that the caller was the person who shot him and that she is in danger. Helen is out and misses the call; she is surprised to run into Collie when she returns to her apartment. Collie says that he is David'southward older brother and that he shot Barry as revenge for his involvement in the accident. He explains that he institute out who had run him down past questioning the saleswoman from whom Julie had bought the yellow roses. He determined Helen was involved in the hitting-and-run when Julie went to Helen's apartment after Julie received the note. Helen realizes that Collie plans to impale her and locks herself in her bathroom. After Collie tries to have the door off its hinges, she breaks the bathroom window and manages to escape.

That evening, Julie prepares for her date with Bud. However, her mother has an ominous premonition and asks Julie to stay home, to which she agrees. When Bud arrives, he convinces her to walk him back to his car so that they tin can have a talk. At his car, Bud tells her that his younger brother David had given him the proper name Bud considering he could non pronounce "Collingsworth". He reveals that he knows Julie was involved in the hit-and-run and he begins to strangle Julie. Ray, who received a call from Barry alert that they were in danger, appears and beats Collingsworth unconscious with a flashlight. The police go far after beingness sent by Helen to Julie's house. Julie and Ray agree that it is time to confess what they did final summertime.

Background and publication history [edit]

I Know What You lot Did Last Summer was beginning published in October 1973 by Little, Brown and Visitor in hardcover.[1] Duncan got the thought for the book while she was making dinner and her daughter Kerry was having a conversation with a friend in the kitchen. Kerry told her friend about a male child that interested her, and her friend was considering what to wear on her upcoming date. The two eventually found out they were talking about the same boy. Duncan began to wonder what would happen if "the boy had deliberately implanted himself in the lives of two girls he knew were friends" and if "he built upwardly a different personality to present to each of them".[ii] Duncan afterward read a story near a hitting-and-run in the newspaper, which led her to incorporate 1 into the novel.[3]

On Oct 5, 2010, Little Brown reissued the novel in paperback with updates to modernize some of the content.[iv] [five] I Know What You Did Last Summer was in the get-go group of 10 dissimilar titles that were updated and reissued with these changes.[5] In the revised edition, Duncan gave her characters jail cell phones and updated some of her characters' wearable choices.[6] The war Collingsworth had fought in was inverse from the Vietnam War to the Iraq War.[seven] [eight]

An audiobook, read past Dennis The netherlands, was released by Hachette Audio in 2010 and features the modernized text. Lizzie Matkowski from Booklist thought that early on in the audiobook Holland "establishes a sense of normalcy in both the dialogue and narrative, which makes the revelations of what Julie and her friends did and their attempts to become on normally stand out starkly." She stated that the characters are securely flawed, but that "Holland manages to redeem them niggling by lilliputian by emphasizing their naivete, youth, and regret."[nine]

Reception [edit]

A movie tie-in edition of the novel released by Pocket Books in October 1997 sold 517,000 copies by November 1998.[ten] It was listed by Publishers Weekly every bit the top selling children's fiction book for the months of October, November and Dec 1997.[11] [12] [thirteen] A 1999 paperback edition published by Dell was selected as a 2005 Popular Paperback for Young Adults by the American Library Association.[14]

A reviewer from Kirkus Reviews felt that Barry and Helen "are and then vacuous that ane hardly cares whether they go murdered or non." They stated that, despite this, the "madman murderer is cleverly curtained amongst a bevy of red herrings, and, as he zeroes in for his revenge, this turns into a high velocity chiller with a double identity twist."[15] Jennifer Moody writes in The Times Literary Supplement that "the mystery of who is responsible for the letters, the threats and the violence, is handled with skill and panache". She added that Duncan "makes illuminating contrasts betwixt the relationships of Julie and Ray on the one hand and Helen and Barry on the other."[16] Complete Review 'southward Thou. A. Orthofer gave the story a B− rating, stating that the story was a "reasonably suspenseful guilt-ridden thriller", merely that "the writing (and some of the plotting) is very, very basic."[7]

Film adaptation [edit]

The novel was adapted into a 1997 film of the same proper name directed past Jim Gillespie and starring Jennifer Dear Hewitt as Julie, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Helen, Ryan Phillipe as Barry, and Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray. Although the flick retained the aforementioned premise of the novel, the story was re-envisioned equally a slasher film, with the four friends being hunted by a hook-wielding killer. In addition to featuring the deaths of several characters, unlike the novel, the picture depicts the friends as accidentally running over a fisherman, who secretly survives the hit-and-run and is ultimately revealed as the killer. Duncan was critical of the adaptation, stating in a 2002 interview she was "appalled" that her story was turned into a slasher motion-picture show.[17] The film was met with mixed reviews, merely was a commercial success and spawned a picture show serial consisting of a straight sequel in 1998, and a third film in 2006.

Television series [edit]

A television serial based on the novel was created by Sara Goodman for Amazon Prime Video in 2021.[18]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ In the outset edition of the novel his given name is David, which is the name used throughout the article. In the 2010 revised edition (ISBN 0-316-09899-10), his name was changed to Daniel.

References [edit]

  1. ^ Estes, Sally (January 1, 1974). "I Know What You Did Last Summer". Booklist . Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  2. ^ Duncan, Lois (1979). How to Write and Sell Your Personal Experiences . Writer'south Digest Books. p. 188. ISBN0-911654-74-7.
  3. ^ Kies, Cosette (1993). Presenting Lois Duncan . Twayne Publishers. p. 92. ISBN0-8057-8221-4.
  4. ^ "I Know What You lot Did Last Summer". Hachette Book Group. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  5. ^ a b Lodge, Sally (September 23, 2010). "Lois Duncan Thrillers Get an Update". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  6. ^ Whitford, Emma; Vineyard, Jennifer (October six, 2013). "The V: The Immature-Adult Bubble". New York . Retrieved July five, 2019.
  7. ^ a b Orthofer, M. A. (November 10, 2011). "I Know What You Did Final Summer". Complete Review . Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  8. ^ Duncan, Lois; Lyga, Barry (Oct 5, 2010). "Q&A with the Writer". I Know What You Did Last Summer. Footling, Brownish and Visitor. ISBN978-0-316-09899-i.
  9. ^ Matkowski, Lizzie (May 1, 2017). "I Know What You Did Concluding Summertime". Booklist. 113 (17): 38 – via Academic OneFile.
  10. ^ "Publishers and Booksellers Discuss Specific Campaigns and Strategies to Promote Backlist Titles". Publishers Weekly. November 23, 1998. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  11. ^ "Children's Bestsellers". Publishers Weekly. 244 (47): 31. Nov 17, 1997 – via EBSCOhost.
  12. ^ "Children's Bestsellers". Publishers Weekly. 244 (51): 29. Dec 15, 1997 – via EBSCOhost.
  13. ^ "Children's Bestsellers". Publishers Weekly. 245 (3): 247. January 19, 1998 – via EBSCOhost.
  14. ^ "2005 Popular Paperbacksfor Young Adults". Young Developed Library Services Association. Retrieved July v, 2019.
  15. ^ "I Know What Yous Did Last Summer". Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  16. ^ Moody, Jennifer (March 26, 1982). "The onset of maturity". The Times Literary Supplement (4121): 343 – via The Times Literary Supplement Historical Annal.
  17. ^ "Lois Duncan". 19 July 2016. Archived from the original on 19 July 2016. Retrieved ane June 2019.
  18. ^ Abdulbaki, Mae (2021-ten-15). "Biggest Changes I Know What You Did Last Summer Makes From The Motion-picture show". ScreenRant . Retrieved 2021-10-19 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)

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