Second Spring A Love Story Author:Andrew M. Greeley It's 1978 and the country, exhausted from the twin traumas of Vietnam and Watergate, is suffering from a massive hangover. Chucky O'Mally knows how the country feels; approaching fifty, he finds himself in the grip of a debilitating midlife crisis. Although he has much to be thankful for, including a loving wife and thriving career as a professi... more »onal photographer, he does not feel like a success. He hasn't lost his faith, exactly, but he does feel disillusioned and depressed. As he travels the world, from the Vatican, where 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 a wayh to renew his weary spirit.
Fortunately, he doesn't have to face this challenge alone. With the loving support of his family, and especially his irrepressible and adoring wife, Rosemarie, he just might rediscover hope and optimism in time for a Second Spring...