Yusuf's Reviews > Going All the Way: A Novel

One of the Good Ones

I thought at first, throughout the first chapters and even beyond, that you had to have lived it to appreciate it. Maybe that you had to have lived there, in the Midwest, to appreciate the book and its characters. But this is a book that grows on you, sneaks up on you, despite the crap that dates it, that seems at first to weigh it down. I’m reminded of Ron McLarty’s THE MEMORY OF RUNNING, one of the most -ultimately- uplifting of stories. This might not be for everyone. I can imagine readers throwing the book away after a chapter or two. But for those with the stomach, yes, the stomach to persevere through the pages and pages of folly and phoniness, this book will prove to be one of the really good ones.