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Full fathom five : a daughter's search / Mary Lee Coe Fowler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fowler, Mary Lee Coe, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fathers and daughters--United States.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Mothers and daughters--United States.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Parent and adult child--United States.
- Parent and adult child.
- Children of military personnel--United States.
- Children of military personnel.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Fowler, Mary Lee Coe, 1944-.
- Fowler, Mary Lee Coe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Ghost dad
- The search
- Sea change.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274).
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8039-6
- OCLC:
- 567999113
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