Second Spring
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In the late 1970s, Chucky O'Malley faces a midlife crisis as he searches for renewal and hope amidst a nation reeling from Vietnam and Watergate.
Father Andrew M. Greeley continues his chronicles of the O'Malleys, a resourceful Irish-American family caught up in modern American history. In Second Spring, Charles "Chucky" O'Malley approaches fifty in 1978, struggling with disillusionment and depression despite a loving wife and thriving photography career.
As Chucky travels from the Vatican, where a new pope is to be selected, to Jimmy Carter's White House, where the president seeks to cure the nation's malaise, he searches for a way to renew his weary spirit. With the loving support of his family, especially his irrepressible wife Rosemarie, Chucky strives to rediscover his lost optimism in time for a second spring.
The fifth novel in the O'Malley saga, following A Midwinter's Tale, Younger than Springtime, A Christmas Wedding, and September Song, Second Spring continues to delight readers with its blend of family, faith, and history.
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Priest, sociologist, author, and journalist, Father Andrew M. Greeley (1928-2013) was the author of over 50 bestselling novels and more than 100 works of nonfiction. His novels include the Bishop Blackie Ryan series, including The Archbishop in Andalusia; the Nuala Anne McGrail series, including Irish Tweed; the O'Malley Family Saga, including A Midwinter's Tale; and standalones such as Home for Christmas and The Cardinal Sins.
A leading spokesperson for generations of Catholics, Father Greeley unflinchingly urged his beloved Church to become more responsive to believers' evolving concerns. He chronicled his service to the Church in two autobiographies, Confessions of a Parish Priest and Furthermore!
