Going Away

The National Book Awardnominated masterpiece that deconstructs and redefines 1950s America and the existential road trip 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 waystopping at bars, all-night restaurants, [...]
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The National Book Awardnominated masterpiece that deconstructs and redefines 1950s America and the existential road trip 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 waystopping at bars, all-night restaurants, and gas stationsthe twenty-nine-year-old narrator, at once egotistical and compassionate, barrels across the ';blue highways' to meet, fight with, love, and hate old comrades and girlfriends, collecting their stories and reflecting on his own life experiences.Driven by probing stream-of-consciousness prose and brutally honest self-analysis, Going Away 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.