O'Malley Family Saga · Book 7

Golden Years

by Andrew M. Greeley

Published
1 January 2004
Pages
366
ISBN-13
9780765303387
Type
novel

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Cover of Golden Years

About this book

Golden Years closes the O'Malley Family Saga in 2004, following Chucky and Rosemarie O'Malley into old age as the seventh and final book in Andrew Greeley's chronicle of a marriage that spans the twentieth century. It runs 366 pages, ending a series that Greeley's death in 2013 left permanently closed.

Its place in O'Malley Family Saga

Golden Years is book 7 in the O'Malley Family Saga series. It follows Second Spring. See the full O'Malley Family Saga reading order.

A seven-novel chronicle of the O'Malley family -- Charles "Chucky" O'Malley and his wife Rosemarie chief among them -- across the twentieth century, from Chucky and Rosemarie's youth and courtship through the Second World War, into ambassadorial and family life, and finally old age in Golden Years (2004). Greeley uses the family's decades-spanning story to trace mid-century American Catholic life, Chicago's Irish community, and a marriage that stays passionate and complicated across fifty years, rather than…

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