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Rendered in honest prose, national bestseller Going All the Way expertly and astutely captures the joys and struggles of working-class Middle America, and the risks of challenging the status quo. Author Dan Wakefield crafts this enduring coming-of-age tale with fluidity, grace, and deep humanity.
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Feb 9, 2016 · Rendered in honest prose, national bestseller Going All the Way expertly and astutely captures the joys and struggles of working-class Middle America, and the risks of challenging the status quo. Author Dan Wakefield crafts this enduring coming-of-age tale with fluidity, grace, and deep humanity.
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Apr 22, 1997 · I'm enamored with the time period, and Wakefield presents a worthy evocation of an era when the glow of America's victory in World War II gave way to the ambiguity of Korea and the Cold War. All in all, a mature and thought-provoking book.
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Buy a cheap copy of Going All the Way book by Dan Wakefield. . . . 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...
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Apr 22, 1997 · A stunning achievement, a beautiful work of fiction. . . . 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.
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- 04/22/1997
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- Indiana University Press
Two friends come of age in Indianapolis at the close of the Korean War in this touching, funny, and brilliantly etched portrait of America in the throes of adolescence.
Going All the Way is the Catcher in the Rye of the Midwest in the 1950s: a touching, funny, and brilliantly etched portrait of America in the throes of adolescence. It seethes with pent-up frustration and confusion, and nearly every episode bubbles with hilarity.
