A Rendezvous to Remember, Terry Marshall
A Rendezvous to Remember, Terry Marshall
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A Rendezvous to Remember
A Memoir of Joy and Heartache at the Dawn of the Sixties

Author: Terry Marshall, Ann Garretson Marshall

Narrator: Alexander Cendese, Lidia Dornet

Unabridged: 14 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/08/2021

Synopsis

In the early 1960s, Ann Garretson sparks an airmail romance with Lieutenant Jack Sigg, a West Point grad and tank commander on the German-Czech border. Ann and Jack's correspondence heats up, and they hatch a rendezvous in Europe for the summer of 1964 to seal their budding love. A match for the ages.

Not so fast. Ann's best friend in college, Terry Marshall, helps her plan the escapade, but in the weeks leading up to her trip, they realize they are more than just friends.

In June, Terry bids her a wistful goodbye. One lonely month later, he decides he can't live without her. As Jack takes Ann on a whirlwind "grand tour" in his Corvette Sting Ray, she receives Terry's marriage proposal—by mail. His letter throws all three of their lives into turmoil.

Ann is in love with two men who couldn't be more different. Jack offers the military life Ann grew up with. Terry is a fiery conscientious objector who plans to join the Peace Corps—unless the draft board intervenes and sends him to jail. Caught between the old mores and winds of change, Ann must make an agonizing choice.

About Terry Marshall

Terry Marshall grew up on a farm in Center, Colorado. After graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder, he worked as a reporter and then as the editor of the Glendale News-Herald. The following year, he married Ann Garretson, and they taught English in the Philippines as Peace Corps volunteers and later served as Peace Corps country codirectors in the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, and Tuvalu. Back in the States, they worked side by side as community organizers and activists in Colorado. Terry earned an MS in rural sociology from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD from Cornell University in sociology of development. He has studied, analyzed, and written both fiction and nonfiction works on discrimination, poverty, rural development, and intercultural relations.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Samantha

Garretson and Marshall reach right into the heart in this beautifully written memoir, pulling on every emotion. This is a story about what it means to be human–to struggle with love and what we truly want out of life – especially when being pulled in two different directions. Humorous and heartfelt,......more

Goodreads review by Greg

With all due respect to Tolstoy, Terry Marshall and Ann Garretson Marshall prove that all happy families are not alike after all. In a delightful confluence of lives well-lived and a story well-told, “A Rendezvous to Remember” embeds us deep in the sights, sounds and spirit of the summer of 1964, br......more

Goodreads review by Maren

Interesting and romantic A wonderful story. I loved the people, the story and the fact that it is true. Beautifully descriptive. Exciting and romantic.......more

Goodreads review by Jill

You’ll be drawn in! A Rendezvous to Remember has that “special something” that makes you deeply involved with the characters, even in a real-life story. The authors’ reflections and choices as they navigate coming of age during an era of cultural shifts and political polarity is both thought provoki......more

Goodreads review by Amy

I love this book!! So so good!!! I need more!! What a great read!......more

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