- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: St Martin's Press; 1st, First Edition, First Printing edition (24 Feb 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312865716
- ISBN-13: 978-0312865719
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,978,942 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Fans of Greeley's trademarked light touch will enjoy yet another tale of the trials and turmoils of Chicago's own." --"The Irish American Post"
"Sentimentality and nostalgia for bygone days underlie this coming-of-age story from Greeley....Fans will love it." --"Library Journal"
"In this deft addition to this shelf of novels, Greeley once again shows his knack for combining solid characterizations, folksy prose, a bantamweight sense of history, and understated Catholic morality to make highly entertaining fiction." --"Publishers Weekly"
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Sentimentality and nostalgia for bygone days underlie this coming-of-age story from Greeley....Fans will love it." --"Library Journal"
"In this deft addition to this shelf of novels, Greeley once again shows his knack for combining solid characterizations, folksy prose, a bantamweight sense of history, and understated Catholic morality to make highly entertaining fiction." --"Publishers Weekly"
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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With his unique blend of humor, Irish-American charm, and solid family values, Father Andrew M. Greeley continues to attract a new generation of readers and delight. his legion of loyal fans. A Midwinters Tale is the charming story of Charles Cronin's coming of age on the West Side of Chicago and post-war Germany.
The Second World War is over, but in Germany, the aftermath is a dangerous and heart-rending time: the black market is booming, government agents hunt down suspected war criminals and refugees for ruthless Russians, and everywhere the streets are filled with human suffering.
Charles "Chucky" Cronin is a short, wisecracking clerk typist with flaming red hair in the First Constabulary Regiment in Bamberg. All Chucky wants out of life is to go to his beloved Notre Dame, become an accountant, and have a nice orderly life, but the Deity seems to have other plans for him. Again and again his courage and compassion get him into impossible scrapes -- with black marketeers, border patrols, his commanding officer, and the U.S. Army -- and only his trademark combination of quick wit and blind luck (and maybe a little Heavenly intervention) see him safely out of harm's way. He may yet make it back home to a certain Rosemary Clancy in one piece after all, and wouldn't that be grand, don't ya know?
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When we lived on Menard Avenue, I used to lie half-awake listening to my parents' conversation after the Bing Crosby program or Amos and Andy. Read the first page
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As a avid reader of Andrew M Greeley I was thrilled to find some back dated books in the O'Malley Family Saga. I enjoyed this book very much and look forward to many more of Father Greeley's books.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I loved it - sure!
29 April 2000
Format:Hardcover
Father Greeley introduces us to new and captivating fictional (but don't we know real-life folks similiar?) Irish-Catholic families in Chicago and deftly interweaves them with suspense in Post World War II Germany. But, here's a *WARNING* I wish I would have known when I started this book: this is "Part One" of the saga. Unlike the Blackie Ryan or Nuala Ann books, it is NOT self-contained. One must read the 2d of this series, _Younger Than Springtime_, to have even a glimmer of how it all ends. Order both now, so you won't have to pester your Postperson to keep reading ;-) I hope, to complete the saga (still not wholly resolved at the end of _Springtime_,)that there will be a _Summer_ and _Autumn_?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A good beginning to a new Greeley saga
31 Aug 1999
Format:Hardcover
I enjoyed this book, spending the better part of a Sunday afternoon to finish it. It is the beginning of a series focused on bright and personable young Chuck O'Malley. The young man has the gift for detective work that is a common trait of Greeley's protagonists. While the setting and character types are familiar from other Greeley novels, the story is a pleasant exploration of familiar territory. This story provided a nice balance of action, suspense, and good characters. It's frustration is that it is the first installment in a series and just when you want more the book ends. Of course, the next installment is available as I write this belated review. Chuck O'Malley may just end up on my favorite character list along with Blackie Ryan and the Coynes (Dermot and Naula Ann).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Greeley's funniest charms, enlightens,w/finest finale ever
6 Mar 1999
Format:Hardcover
The dust jacket says its set on 1947 but the first hundred pages--the funniest he has ever written--are tributes to an American Catholicism circa 1920-1965 at its most grotesque, mean, charitable, and loving. The next hundred give us the most charming faux naif narrator since Huck Finn, while exposing to a new generation what it was like to grow up in the depression and survive into the postWar's endless miracles. The German setting enriches the background of his earlier Blackie book by taking us to a Germany of the generation previous to the Bishop and the Three Kings. Finally, his hero owes us another book--- the culmination of the novel is so powerful that I can only hope it is just ACT One
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