The Lonelyby Paul Gallico | |
| Category: |
"Fiction - Romance" |
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| Pages: | 126 |
| Year of Publication: | 1945 |
| Date Added: | 01/15/2025 |
| Date Read: | 12/17/2025 |
| Notes: | Jerry Wright is an American pilot in England during WWII. He's engaged to Catherine, a girl back home in his serene upper-middle-class world. He gets a two-week leave and, imitating more experienced men, decides to invite Patches, a quiet English girl along with him. She's inexperienced at this kind of thing, but she loves Jerry and agrees to go. During their stay in Scotland, she falls irretrievable in love with him, and he with her. He grabs a quick flight home to break things off with Catherine, but his parents push him not to be foolish. He now has to choose between the lovely girl at home with whom he shares memories, backgrounds, and family connections but no passion and the quiet English girl with whom he has a much-deeper connection and about whom he feels great passion. He chickens out on talking to Catherine, and his parents believe they've saved the situation, but back in England, Jerry realizes life means nothing without Patches. He finds her and proposes, realizing that all the difficulties with Catherine and his parents lie ahead, but knowing that dealing with them is part of being a man. |
| My Rating: | 6 |
Reviewed by Roger on 2025-12-17 12:35:51
