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MY SON, MY SON
BY
HOWARD SPRING
Sept. 1938 printing
The Viking Press


DESCRIPTION OF BOOK BORROWED FROM GOODREADS: "Though long, this is a fine, engrossing family saga, set in the years ranging from 1871 to 1922.

It introduces us to two men and their families, especially their two sons who were born on the same day.

William Essex is a man who has known poverty at its worst, and has attained self-made, hard earned wealth and fame as an author. He married someone with whom he had some affection for but didn't really love. But the son that came from his marriage - Oliver - is someone he loves dearly.

William's life-long friend, Dermot, is a family man, with a stable marriage producing two daughters, and a son with whom he has high hopes for. Dermot is obsessed with Irish national causes and wants his beloved son, Rory, to participate in the cause of fighting against English repression in Ireland.

Sons Oliver and Rory are friends early in their lives but things will become difficult between them in the years that follow. Their doting fathers, in their own different ways, have high hopes for them. But how will things turn out for these two sons, what will be their fates?

William loves his son Oliver and is determined to give him all that he never had as a child.
But Oliver is a somewhat cold, flawed character, will he cause more anguish than happiness for his father?

Dermot wants his son to fight for the causes he himself didn't go out and fight for, and has high expectations of him. Will he one day regret these wishes if/when they come into fruition?

It's worth reading this long book to find out. There are many other characters and storylines that are integral to the book and keep one's interest alive. "