Dan Wakefield’s novel Home Free is more than just a carefree tour through the 1960s. It illuminates the human need for acceptance and affection. The main character Gene, is compelled to examine his fundamentally human shortcomings in the middle of drug-addled, free-loving hippies because, at some point, his life will rely on it.
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Dan Wakefield
Dan Wakefield worked in American fiction, journalism, screenwriting, and memoir, often examining postwar relationships and changing social expectations. Starting Over follows divorced Phil Potter as the freedom he imagines in the 1970s proves lonelier and more complicated than expected. Home Free turns to Gene Barrett,…
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