Going, Going, Gone by Jack Womack
	List Price:   $13.00 Unit Price:   $10.40 You Save:   $2.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0802138667 ISBN-13:   9780802138668 Publisher:   Grove Press Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   January 2002 Pages:   224 Format:   Paperback
Subjects
NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION FICTION_GHOST PRESIDENTS_FICTION
Description/Notes
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