Going All the Way

Wakefield, Dan

ISBN 10: 0440029554 / ISBN 13: 9780440029557

Published by The Delacorte Press, New York, NY, 1970

About this Item

307 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon Studio. His 6th book. Two Korean War veterans returning to their hometown of Indianapolis explore readjusting to civilian life. Inscribed by Wakefield in 1971 on the title page. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with the spine a touch faded. A beautiful copy!

Seller Inventory # 5766634047

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Going All the Way
• Publisher: The Delacorte Press, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440029554
• ISBN 13: 9780440029557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

"... a passionate and tormented novel about the summer of 1954 as it transpired in the lives of two young Korean War veterans returning to their Indianapolis homes.... it is possible that the current publishing season will produce no book more urgently felt." â New York Times Book Review, August 9, 1970

"A brilliant book." â John Ciardi

"Wonderful, sad and funny; a scathing portrait of middle America through the eyes of a new fictional character who will inevitably be compared to Portnoy and Holden Caulfield." â Gay Talese

Noted author Dan Wakefield's most famous novel seethes with pent-up frustration and confusion and nearly every episode bubbles with hilarity. This novel of the 1950s so perfectly captures its time and place that it transcends the specific and becomes universalâ a true classic of American literature. Now a major motion picture.

(1970)

About the Author

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.