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Going, Going, Gone
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It's 1968, and Walter Bullitt, part-time US government freelancer and collector of "race records," 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 outré 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.
Bringing his acclaimed Ambient series to a close, "Womack has crafted a fast-moving, hipper-than-hip science fiction novel meshing the exuberant wordplay of Anthony Burgess with the high-concept what-if history Philip Dick made famous with
" (
).
"A bizarre mating of William S. Burroughs and Robert Heinlein, though the over-the-top, hipster, first-person narration might also make readers think of Jack Kerouac channeled through P. G. Wodehouse." —
"Like Damon Runyon and James M. Cain, Jack Womack has a gift for inventing oddball language. . . . Daringly, scaringly distinct in contemporary fiction." —
"The action moves with amphetamine quickness, and Womack's surefooted control over his material completely sucks us in. . . . Has roots in the paranoid, conspiratorial bookends of Norman Mailer's near-delirious
and Thomas Pynchon's
"
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About Jack Womack
Jack Womack is the author of
,
,
,
,
,
, and
. Womack's short stories, have appeared in anthologies edited by Kathryn Cramer (
, "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"), Ellen Datlow (
"Lifeblood")
, and
"That Old School Tie,"), and Don Keller, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman (
"Audience"); as well as in
("A Kiss, a Wink, a Grassy Knoll."). He has published articles or reviews in
, the
,
,
,
,
, and
(Munich), and was a contributor to
. He is a cowinner of the Philip K. Dick Award, and has taught writing at the Clarion West workshop, in Seattle. He lives in New York City.
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