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I'll Never Find Another You - Couverture souple

Matke, Randall

 
9781418446284: I'll Never Find Another You
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1418446289 ISBN 13 : 9781418446284
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2004

Synopsis

The year was 1964.¿ Leslie Kovacs Jr. was a socially awkwardsenior at a small Catholic high school in the Miami, Florida area.¿ Margie Smithfield was a shy, plainsophomore.¿ These two young people weredrawn to each other, and pledged their pure, chaste love until the end of the'long, long journey' when they could be married. But that long journey had to passthrough the time of troubles known as the Sixties.¿ Their dream of a life together would betested by their dysfunctional families, a thousand miles of distance and agreater divergence in their interests; it would be shaken by the turmoil in thecountry and in their Church; and ultimately shattered by an act of brutality.Twenty years later, against allodds, they meet again in the offices of the State Department in Washington DC.¿She is a single mother struggling to make a new life for herself and hertroubled¿ son.¿ He is a high-ranking political appointee,deeply involved in a covert operation to destabilize Soviet rule in Eastern Europe.¿ He has abandonedthe Faith that once gave meaning to his life,¿ leaving him cynical and selfish.¿ Can Margie bring back the Leslie she onceknew?¿ Can she break the hold of a womanas selfish as himself?¿Can their long-dead love, and Leslie'slong-dead Faith, live again?This first novel by Randall Matke is an affirmation of faith in God, freedom,and the power of prayer and pure love.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The year was 1964.¿ Leslie Kovacs Jr. was a socially awkwardsenior at a small Catholic high school in the Miami, Florida area.¿ Margie Smithfield was a shy, plainsophomore.¿ These two young people weredrawn to each other, and pledged their pure, chaste love until the end of the'long, long journey' when they could be married. But that long journey had to passthrough the time of troubles known as the Sixties.¿ Their dream of a life together would betested by their dysfunctional families, a thousand miles of distance and agreater divergence in their interests; it would be shaken by the turmoil in thecountry and in their Church; and ultimately shattered by an act of brutality.Twenty years later, against allodds, they meet again in the offices of the State Department in Washington DC.¿She is a single mother struggling to make a new life for herself and hertroubled¿ son.¿ He is a high-ranking political appointee,deeply involved in a covert operation to destabilize Soviet rule in Eastern Europe.¿ He has abandonedthe Faith that once gave meaning to his life,¿ leaving him cynical and selfish.¿ Can Margie bring back the Leslie she onceknew?¿ Can she break the hold of a womanas selfish as himself?¿Can their long-dead love, and Leslie'slong-dead Faith, live again?This first novel by Randall Matke is an affirmation of faith in God, freedom,and the power of prayer and pure love.

Biographie de l'auteur

Randall Matke was born in Washington DC in 1947, and lived in South Florida from 1956 to 1975.¿Since his return to the Washingtonarea in 1975 he has been a career employee of the Federal Government (but forneither the State Department nor the CIA, unlike his protagonist LeslieKovacs).¿ He lives in Kensington,Maryland with his wife Sharon and son David.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1418446289
ISBN 13 
9781418446284
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
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