O'Malley Family Saga · Book 5

September Song

by Andrew M. Greeley

Published
1 January 2001
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9780812579451
Type
novel

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About this book

September Song, the fifth O'Malley novel, appeared in 2001, moving Andrew Greeley's chronicle of Chucky and Rosemarie's fifty-year marriage into its later chapters. At 384 pages, it precedes Second Spring in the family's decades-spanning story.

Its place in O'Malley Family Saga

September Song is book 5 in the O'Malley Family Saga series. It follows A Christmas Wedding. It is followed by 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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