Yes, indeed, WILL YOU is a sequel to WAKE UP. I think
Gorman's town is really more like the Cedar Rapids of his
youth, or his dream of an exurb at that time; Sam McCain
definitely seems a very autumnal 24-year-old in this book,
and will look forward to see how wizened an 18yo he is as I
go on to the other books in the series (this is the first
I've read). There were no blatant chronological bobbles in
WILL YOU, as I recall, which involves an Alger Hiss analog
and two highly Gold-Medal-flavored-farcical female operatives
of, respectively, a ultranationalist US group and the Soviet
spy apparatus. McCain trusts one of them instantly for no
good reason, and some of the character names will throw you
(a long-term friend is Mary Travers, though not the Mightily
Winded Mary Travers). So, a flawed but pleasant book.
TM
-----Original Message----- From: Joy Matkowski [mailto:
jmatkowski1@comcast.net] I take it that's in the same
series as WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE, which I didn't finish. The
protag didn't seem young, and the setting didn't seem
anything like small town 1950s America, at least not mine
(which was once profiled as the epitome of real America by
the Saturday Evening Post). Had I detected anything
left-sympathetic I might have kept reading.
Todd Mason wrote:
> Now for some arguably leftist, or left-sympathetic,
medium boiled, I read
Ed
> Gorman's WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW (the protag
doesn't quite
> feel/think/act like a 24yo to me) and began Roger
Simon's THE LOST COAST
> over the weekend.
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