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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778045003321

Autore

Fowler Mary Lee Coe <1944->

Titolo

Full fathom five [[electronic resource] ] : a daughter's search / / Mary Lee Coe Fowler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8173-8039-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

306.874/2092

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Soggetti

Fathers and daughters - United States

Mothers and daughters - United States

Parent and adult child - United States

Children of military personnel - United States

World War, 1939-1945 - Naval operations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274).

Nota di contenuto

Ghost dad -- The search -- Sea change.

Sommario/riassunto

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, let