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

• Autore: Fowler Mary Lee Coe <1944->
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.874/2092; B
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Full fathom five
• ISBN: 0-8173-8039-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778045003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II