Memorial Bridge - Softcover

Carroll, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804112746 ISBN 13: 9780804112741

Publisher: Ivy Books, 1995

Synopsis

Sean Dillon pulls himself out of the slums of the Depression to become a lawyer, and discovers beautiful, passionate Cass, a woman of the same mean streets. With her fierce intelligence as his compass, Sean knows he can make his life matter. He becomes an intelligence officer and presidential advisor through war and peace, but he begins to lose his passion for the good fight -- until the rage and confusion of the 1960s enters his family's life. Only then can Sean, Cass, and their son Richard come face-to-face with the high price to be paid for their most cherished convictions -- love of their family and their country.

From the horrors of the Chicago stockyards to the gangland corruption that pollutes the city; from the intrigue of World War II espionage to the sharply divided homefront during the Vietnam War, master storyteller James Carroll tells an American epic of conscience, ambition, and conflict.

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From the Back Cover

"[Carroll] writes with sweep about faith, redemption, truth, honor....There is beauty and power in his characters and themes, and there is mystery in the big questions that inform Carroll's moral fiction." -- The Boston Globe

"As in his previous bestselling novels, James Carroll once again tackles those dangerous, wrenching issues of morality, political ethics, and family ties." -- Alice Hoffman

From Library Journal

Memorial Bridge follows the popular formula of an impoverished immigrant's rise to power. An Irish Catholic seminarian who drops out just before final vows, Sean Dillon works in the famed Depression-era Chicago stockyards to finance his way through night law school. He nearly fails to get his law degree when he misses his final exam because he stayed late to pull the corpse of a murdered man from a blood drainage pipe in the slaughterhouse. In seeking justice for the murdered man, Sean finds both the love of his life, Cass Ryan, the victim's niece, and his life's work in the FBI. Finally, as a Pentagon general, he comes to agree with his conscientious-objector son that America has created a slaughterhouse in Vietnam and that the war must be stopped. Readers who like this sort of thing will enjoy this too. Movie rights sold; extensive author tour.
- Patricia Y. Morton, State Lib. of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivy Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0804112746
• ISBN 13: 9780804112741
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 503