<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Here is the bestselling novel about growing up before free sex, Vietnam and AIDS. A "wildly sexy novel (that) isn't a sex novel".--Kurt Vonnegut.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> . . . 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. --New York Times Book Review, August 9, 1970</p><p>A brilliant book. --John Ciardi</p><p>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. --Gay Talese</p><p>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 universal--a true classic of American literature. Now a major motion picture.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>. . . 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. . . .</p>-- "New York Times Book Review"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p>
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