"The fifties, with their pinball machines and drive-ins, come alive with irony, humor, and poignancy uncontaminated by nostalgia in this "wildly sexy novel [that] isn't a sex novel," according to Kurt Vonnegut.
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Dan Wakefield’s latest book is Creating from the Spirit: Living Each Day as a Creative Act. His other novels include Starting Over, Under the Apple Tree, and Selling Out.
This is another title being reissued as a movie tie-in. The plot of this odd coming-of-age story follows army buddies Sonny Burns and Gunner Casselman, who return to their small hometown to find that life there is the pits. LJ's reviewer found the book flawed but noted that "the vacuous milieu and grubby, banal conversations are reproduced with fidelity, and the novel is depressingly believable" (LJ 7/70).
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