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Going, going, gone

  • Jack Womack

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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

Genres

  • Presidents
  • Fiction
  • Election
  • Time travel
  • Fiction, ghost
  • New york (n.y.), fiction
  • Presidents, fiction
  • New York Times reviewed
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About the author

  • Jack Womack

    born 1956

    3.00

    5 ratings · 22 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    1st American ed.

    Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

    2000

  • Edition cover

    Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

    2007

  • Edition cover

    Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

    2002

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins

    2000