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Dreaming Sally : a true story of first love, sudden death and long shadows
- Title
- Dreaming Sally : a true story of first love, sudden death and long shadows / James FitzGerald.
- Author
- FitzGerald, James, 1950-
- Publication
- Toronto : Random House Canada, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- 352 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Sally will die in Europe this summer. George Orr dreamed that his girlfriend, Sally Wodehouse, would die on the trip she wanted to take, and he begged her not to go. But Sally did not take him seriously--how could she? She left for Europe in July 1968 with twenty-five other private-school kids, on "The Odyssey," a Sixties version of the Grand Tour. In August 1968, two days after becoming engaged to George via telegram, she died as he had dreamed she would, in a freak accident. Sally was George's first love, but she was also James FitzGerald's. James first met Sally at a family cottage; he was drawn to her energy and warmth, a stunning contrast to the chilly emotional life of his own family. At seventeen, not exactly a hit with the girls, James was delighted when he realized that he'd be spending the summer with his old friend. And soon, even though he knew that Sally had a serious boyfriend back home, they became inseparable, touring the glories of Western culture by day, dancing and drinking the nights away--giddily unshackled from the expectations and requirements of their class and upbringing. To George and James, both sons of parents who knew how to make demands of their children but not how to love them, Sally represented all the optimism and promised freedom of the '60s. Her death has haunted both men for fifty years--arresting their development, miring them in grief and unreasoning guilt. Dreaming Sally is a profound and evocative exploration of the long shadow left by an eighteen-year-old girl, an uncanny story of first love, sudden death and the complexity of trauma and mourning."--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-350).
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1446
- ISBN
- 9780345814531
- 0345814533
- OCLC
- 1088645886
- Author
- FitzGerald, James, 1950- author.
- Title
- Dreaming Sally : a true story of first love, sudden death and long shadows / James FitzGerald.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Random House Canada, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-350).
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Other Form:
- FitzGerald, James, 1950-, author. Dreaming Sally.: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2018. (CaOONL)20189007346
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1446