Going, Going, Gone (Jack Womack) - Softcover

Womack, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802138667 ISBN 13: 9780802138668

Publisher: Grove Press, 2002

Synopsis

Publishers Weekly has called Jack Womack a "futurist wunderkind ... fast-moving, hipper-than-hip." In his latest novel it's 1968, and Walter Bullitt, part-time U.S. government freelancer, stays busy testing new psychotropics on himself and unsuspecting citizens. Walter's conscience never interferes with his work -- until he's asked to help sabotage Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign. The ghosts who've moved into his apartment aren't much comfort. Then two outre femmes fatales show up and frog-march Walter out of Max's Kansas City before the Velvet Underground can finish their first song. The ladies have a mission. They need to save New York -- both his and theirs. Called "infernally clever" by Locus, Going, Going, Gone is a deeply entertaining novel that closes Jack Womack's acclaimed Ambient series and serves up an apt diagnosis of modern America. "Daringly, scaringly distinct in contemporary fiction." -- Marjorie Preston, Philadelphia Weekly "The action moves with amphetamine quickness, and Womack's surefooted control over his material completely sucks us in...." -- Bruce Bauman, Bookforum

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Review:

‘Nazi flying saucers over an alternate 50s Memphis, the cross-time abduction of Elvis Presley, and what must surely be one of the flat-out weirdest Fisher King inversions yet perpetrated in American literature... delivers a jarringly potent kick in the head. I can only urge you to put yours cleanly it’s way’
WILLIAM GIBSON

On LET’S PUT THE FUTURE BEHIND US:

‘Dark, brilliant and deeply worrying. Much like Russia itself.’
ESQUIRE

‘I don’t expect to read a funnier and more profound book this year, and you shouldn’t either.’
TIME OUT

From the Back Cover:

'NEW YORK, NEW YORK...'

Walter Bullitt's New York, 1968. Part-time U.S. government provocateur and full-time hepcat, Walter isn't keen on the assignment his employers are trying to toss him – no need to mix with the Kennedys if you don't have to.

'...SO GOOD, THEY MADE IT TWICE'

He also hopes the ghosts he's been talking too lately are only a side effect of the recreational drugs. Then two women from a different New York show up and tell him they aren't. Now, Walter saw 'When Worlds Collide' but he never thought he'd be starring in the road show, especially when one world is his and the other, invisible – at the moment.

Altered states, dodgy times, warped futures, weirder pasts. It must be Jack Womack world.

"Womack performs feats of brilliance on many levels. He succeeds in balancing blistering social commentary with shrewd literary experimentation" ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"His aim is utterly merciless, and the central strength of his arsenal is an ability to fracture the language of the late 20th century into vicious shards that wound in unexpected ways... Womack knows his way around the compost of violence and death" VANITY FAIR

"Womack, simply the coolest writer of his generation" NOTHERN ECHO

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0802138667
• ISBN 13: 9780802138668
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224