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Synopsis
Near the end of WWII, a Navy pilot meets and falls in love with a beautiful California girl. They have a brief two weeks together before he is shipped off to the South Pacific. This is an engaging collection of his letters, compiled by the daughter he never got to meet. Full of poignant detail—a chronicle of the passions and fears of wartime—the book is the ultimate love story of America's “greatest generation.””
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From a hidden cache of letters Emma Sweeney has wrought an exquisite book-wise and funny and sad, and almost too moving to bear. (Simon Winchester)
One of the great love stories of our time. (Pat Conroy)
A gem of a book, or an ache of a book really, every bit as amusing as it is moving. (Stacy Schiff)
As Always, Jack is a deeply moving tale of a passionate courtship and marriage, told through the letters of a young naval officer who would have gone on to make his name as a writer had he lived. The introductory essay by the couple's daughter is as inspiring as it is perceptive. This is a book that will break your heart and restore your faith in the power of love. (Ellen Feldman)
With more than 1.5 million members of the US Armed Forces, it has a ready audience alert to the perils of separation, along with many more sympathetic to that predicament.
My search for my father's secret past began when I found some old boxes of his. When I learned Emma Sweeney's story As Always, Jack included a box of secrets about the father that little Emma never met, I opened the book. What I read there opened my heart. (James Bradley)
[These are] squadrons of warm and zestful letters [from Jack Sweeney] to his beloved . . . a packet of letters wrapped with a pink ribbon; a pink ribbon which you, reader, are about to untie. (Andrew Carroll)
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- PublisherHunter Lewis Foundation
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1604190485
- ISBN 13 9781604190489
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages180
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