GO NAKED IN THE WORLD

by Tom T. Chamales ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Nick Stratton, wounded, bemedalled, disullusioned, returns reluctantly to his home in Chicago, to his father, Old Pete, domineering millionaire theatre owner and leader of the Greek community, and to an alcoholic, dignified mother and too grown up kid sister. Nick and his father fight with each other when he refuses to go into the business. They make up when Nick, upon learning that his true love is a call girl and lesbian, becomes engaged to a very young and very rich Greek girl. The reconciliation ends abruptly when Nick breaks off the engagement and runs off to an island he owns in the Florida keys. There he finds what he has been searching for (dignity? maturity? a philosophy of life?) and writes a novel. Fifth-rate Hemingway, and second-rate James Jones this has clumsy writing, poor dialogue, flat characterization and a fuzzy theme. Definitely not for the audience that applauded Chamales' able and interesting first novel Never So Few.

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Publisher: Scribner

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: FICTION