Going All the Way, (Paperback)

from DanDiercks

The quintessential coming of age novel, Dan Wakefield shows that he knows youth, at least youth of a different era. The two main characters, Sonny and Gunner are caricatures of the ‘50s teens searching for themselves. Both have finished college and stints in the military and come home only to dec...

from moonshineandrosefire

Two former soldiers who served during the Korean War meet each other on the train going back home to Indiana. Willard 'Sonny' Burns - the photographer for the school newspaper when he was in high school - was a quiet, shy and rather introverted student, whose high school years were wholly unremar...

from wagner.sarah35

I really want to quip about this book being a 300-page discussion of sexual dysfunction. The main character, Sonny Burns, is a soldier returned from the Korean War (although he never left the US during his service) to his hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. As a resident of Indiana, I really enjoy...

from DanDiercks

The quintessential coming of age novel, Dan Wakefield shows that he knows youth, at least youth of a different era. The two main characters, Sonny and Gunner are caricatures of the ‘50s teens searching for themselves. Both have finished college and stints in the military and come home only to dec...

from moonshineandrosefire

Two former soldiers who served during the Korean War meet each other on the train going back home to Indiana. Willard 'Sonny' Burns - the photographer for the school newspaper when he was in high school - was a quiet, shy and rather introverted student, whose high school years were wholly unremar...