num_pages: 251
description: The 1950s, the age of conformity, also saw the Beatles, James Dean, Jack Kerouac and Elvis Presley. Its youth straddled a widening cultural abyss. Matthew Sweeney, age sixteen, faces a family crisis and the revelation of shocking secrets. The novel depicts those things that hold the family together, and the human foibles and passions that drive them apart.
language: English
title: This Thing Called Love
titlecomplete: This Thing Called Love
publisher: Xlibris Corp