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Going to Chicago: A Novel Kindle Edition
Will Randall’s dream is to go to the Chicago World’s Fair, to see the technological wonders of the modern age and to prepare himself for the glorious future sure to erupt once FDR gets a handle on things. Ace Gilbert had a different dream. He wants to find a “willing city girl”.
So, on a scorching August day these two very-best-of-friends set out for Chicago in Ace’s old Model T, which has been transformed with wings and a propeller to look like the Spad SXIII his father flew in The Great War. This is going to be the best week of their lives, even if Will’s little brother—and his ear-ache—have to come along.
Driving across the Indiana cornfields, they’re kidnapped by a pair of penny candy criminals, Gus Gillis and Gladys Batholomew, and thus begins an adventure none of them had bargained for.
At times, Aces’s narrative is wickedly funny, at other times tearful. And sometimes, his bewilderment comes to full boil.
Going to Chicago is much more than a period romp across the American heartland. It’s a journey into friendship—a friendship bigger than death.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThe Permanent Press
- Publication dateJune 9, 2015
- File size2494 KB
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- ASIN : B00WFNRKDK
- Publisher : The Permanent Press; 1st edition (June 9, 2015)
- Publication date : June 9, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 2494 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 227 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,465,593 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #9,257 in War & Military Action Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #9,791 in U.S. Historical Fiction
- #13,737 in Coming of Age Fiction (Kindle Store)
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