Word: wakefields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Going All the Way, Wakefield (10) 10. Deliverance, Dickey
...days later I read journalist Dan Wakefield's first novel, Going All the Way, for the first time, and, a few days after that, I came to the conclusion that the end will come in a car-the end of me, the end of you, the end of this country, the end of the world. An irrational belief, perhaps, but a firm one. I began to search around for others who felt the same...
...only be found by getting in the car and driving away. They finally decide to go to Chicago ("Chi"), where Gunner has a vague offer to work for an ad-agency. "They came roaring into Chi through a night torched by the steel-mill fires, eerie and hellish," writes Wakefield. They reach a curve in the road and Sonny fumbles, realizing it is "too late, too late even to put on the brake." They head straight into a cement abutment and then smash...
...Going All the Way, Wakefield...