Summary
There always comes a time when men seem to await the catastrophe that will solve their problems; these periods are usually called pre-wars, and they are badly chosen for falling in love. In 1940s New York, a fledgling writer named Jerry Salinger, twenty-one, meets fifteen-year-old Oona O’Neill, daughter of the great American playwright. Their idyll truly begins the following summer, months before Pearl Harbor, before Salinger is called to fight in Europe and Oona leaves to try her luck in Hollywood. A tender, bittersweet novel woven from real lives.
