株式会社極東書店トップ商品一覧Full Fathom Five: A Daughter's Search.

商品詳細

Full Fathom Five: A Daughter's Search.

Full Fathom Five: A Daughter's Search.

・ISBN 978-0-8173-6083-2 paper US$ 34.95

¥8,188.- (税込) (※)価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。

お気に入り
著者・編者Fowler, Mary Lee Coe,
出版社 (The University of Alabama Press, US)
出版年月2023
ページ数286 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A04-22709>

解説

One woman's quest for knowledge of her father lost at sea

Mary Lee Coe Fowler was a posthumous child, born after her father, a submarine skipper in the Pacific, was lost at sea in 1943. Her mother quickly remarried into a difficult and troubled relationship, and Mary Lee's biological father was never mentioned. It was not until her mother died and Mary Lee was a middle-aged adult that she set out to learn not only who her father was, but what happened to him and his crew, and why-and also to confront why she had shied away from asking these questions until it was nearly too late.

Fowler searched through old ships' logs, letters, and naval communiquEs; visited submarine museums, the Naval Academy, and other pertinent sites; interviewed old friends and crew members who knew her dad and mom or served concurrently; and slowly reconstructed the world in which they lived. Beautifully written, Fowler's memoir reveals what she eventually learned: of the perils and harships of submarine service in wartime, of the tragic irony of how her father's sub was probably lost, and of the long-term damage experienced by the families of those who do not come home from war.