As Always, Jack by Emma Sweeney
0316758582
9780316758581
Hardcover, 181pp, Memoir
Little Brown and Company, 2002
Condition: used, a first edition, 1st printing, very good condition, with tight, clean pages. The dust jacket has light edgewear. The picture is a scan of the actual book you will receive.
Synopsis: In the days just after the end of WWII, a young Texas navy pilot named Jack Sweeney falls crazy in love with a California girl right before he is shipped off to the Pacific with his squadron. He woos her with letters and makes away with her heart. he returns safely; he marries her.
Over thirty years later a young woman returns to her childhood home in California for her mother’s funeral. Before leaving the house for the last time, without knowing what she is looking form she opens a dresser drawer in her mother’s room. Toward the very back of the drawer, she finds a packet of old letters tied with a pink ribbon. In these letters she meets the man she has forever longed to know and love, the man her mother rarely spoke of during all the years of her childhood. In these letters she meets her father, Jack Sweeney, for the first time. .
