![]() ![]() Narrated in the third person, the story begins in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin in June circa 1940. Daly began writing the novel while in college when she was seventeen. Additional themes of propriety, peer pressure, social status, and coming of age are also explored. Thematically the novel deals with first love, symbolized through the growth and death of plants as summer turns to fall. Despite their feelings for each other, Angie and Jack realize they are too young to get married and their love goes unrequited. However, when Angie knows she must leave Wisconsin to attend college in Chicago, Jack decides to move to Oklahoma to help run his uncle’s bakery. When Angie is asked out on her first date by popular basketball player Jack Duluth, the two begin to fall in love. Set during summertime in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, the story follows seventeen-year-old Angeline “Angie” Morrow. Seventeenth Summer (1942) is Irish-born American Maureen Daly’s debut young-adult novel. ![]()
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