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Father Andrew M. Greeley, one of America's best-loved & most widely read novelists, has delighted readers with his ongoing chronicles of the crazy O'Malleys, a rambunctious but resourceful Irish-American family swept up in the sweep of modern American history. The prior novels in the saga took the O'Malleys of Chicago from the aftermath of World War II through the tumultuous upheavals of the sixties. Now, in Second Spring, Charles "Chucky" O'Malley and his growing clan face the promise and pitfalls of the late seventies. It's 1978 and the whole country, exhausted from the twin traumas of Vietnam and Watergate, is experiencing an enormous hangover. Chucky O'Malley knows the way the country feels; approaching fifty, he finds himself in the grip of your debilitating midlife crisis. Although he has much to be thankful for, including a loving wife and a thriving career as a specialist photographer, he will not feel like successful. He hasn't lost his faith, exactly, but he does feel disillusioned and depressed. As he travels the globe, from the Vatican, in which a new pope is to be selected, to Jimmy Carter's White House, where an overwhelmed president struggles to find a cure for his nation's malaise, Chucky searches for ways to renew his weary spirit. Fortunately, he does not have to face this challenge alone. Together with the loving support of his family, and especially his irrepressible and adoring wife, Rosemarie, he just might rediscover his lost hope and optimism with time for a Second Spring.
