Going Away

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480437050

<DIV><P><B>National Book Award Finalist: This&#160;autobiographical road-trip novel exploring life and politics in the 1950s became &ldquo;an underground bestseller&rdquo; (<I>The Village Voice</I>).&#160;</B></P></DIV><DIV>The year is 1956, and a blacklisted Hollywood agent sets off on a cross-country adventure from Los Angeles to New York City. Along the way&mdash;stopping at bars, all-night restaurants, and gas stations&mdash;the twenty-nine-year-old narrator, at once egotistical and compassionate, barrels across the &ldquo;blue highways&rdquo; to meet, fight with, love, and hate old comrades and girlfriends, collecting their stories and reflecting on his own life experiences.</DIV><DIV><BR /> Driven by probing stream-of-consciousness prose and brutally honest self-analysis, <I>Going Away </I>is a sprawling autobiographical journey into a kaleidoscope of American mindsets; most significantly, that of its radical narrator. Crammed with acute social and political observations, this urgent novel captures the spirit of its times, so remarkably like that of today.</DIV><DIV><BR /> An odyssey in the spirit of Jack Kerouac&rsquo;s <I>On the Road</I>, <I>Going Away</I> is &ldquo;a novel of major importance. There hasn&rsquo;t been anything like it since <I>The</I><I>Grapes of Wrath</I>&rdquo; (<I>San Francisco Chronicle</I>).<BR /> &#160;</DIV>