Summer of '42 (1971)
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Herman Raucher's novel was published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1971. A grown man drives back up the New England coast to Packett Island and remembers the summer of 1942, when he was fifteen and spent the vacation there with his best friend Oscy and with Benjie, the youngest of the three. (Open Library)
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- Ingersoll watch
- Benjie, the youngest and scrawniest of the three, wears an Ingersoll wristwatch that, the narrator says, is "more important to him than his penis" (p. 5). Bored on the lawn he stares at it; on the beach he holds his left arm up out of the surf to keep it dry (p. 35); wrestling on the sand, Hermie and Oscy lie head to head like its hands at six o'clock (p. 47); and he times the others by it (p. 131). The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: Benjie, in another position of endless boredom, was staring at his Ingersoll. He always stared at his Ingersoll. (Herman Raucher, Summer of '42, scan cataloged as G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1971, p. 19; Internet Archive scan OCR)