Going Away

by Clancy Sigal

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088184103X
• ISBN13: 9780881841039
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Going Away, a trip of self-discovery by a black listed writer

This was a very well written book that draws from the depths of this man's soul on a journey struggling to find some meaning for his life during the 50's & 60's. It is an agonizingly truthful personal search that reveals his brilliance and at times his mental torture, making you question his sanity at times. A Hollywood writer profoundly affected by the McCarthy hearings. A Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship book. Read 'A Woman of Uncertain Character" by her Bastard Son (a book copyrighted in 2006) to bring an even greater understanding of this book and the author-an even greater read.

This book is part of my life

This book is more of a memoir than a novel. I read it so often back in the late 1960s when I discovered it, that it became more like memory than a book I had read. Back then, there were still folks around who boasted truthfully or untruthfully that they had been among people Sigal visited in the journey depicted in this great book. It didn't matter to me. This was a book I savored, read every year or more frequently until the book became like part of my life. I always felt I had been there with Clancy Sigal. What's interesting is the world of labor radicals, worker activists, writers, artists and down to earth non conformists that Sigal recalls either visiting them or in the huge flashback sections of this book. We get a good picture, from one point of view, of the battle between Reuther and the CP over leadership of the UAW, very thinly disguised. Of course, what interested me is that his working class hero, talker about all this revolutionary and labor, never works for a minute in industry, but is going to Hollywood to try to be a screen writer. Yet, Clancy still is drawn to the workers' fights. I got reminded of him and this book today seeing a post from him on a labor history listerv. He's still going with a new book about his momma the labor organizer! Once you read this book, it will become part of your life as well.

A Great Book

This is one of those books that is a neglected masterpiece. Read it as soon as possible.