num_pages: 320
description: Going Native is Stephen Wright’s darkly comic take on the road novel, in which one man’s headlong escape from the American Dream becomes everybody’s worst nightmare. Wylie Jones is lovely wife, beautiful kids, barbecues in the backyard of his tastefully decorated suburban Chicago house with good friends. Set, but not satisfied. So one night he just walks out, gets behind the wheel of a neighbor’s emerald-green Galaxy 500, and drives off into some other life, his name changed, his personality malleable. In Wright’s inimitable narrative, we’re taken on a joy ride to hell, a rollercoaster of sex and violence and the peculiar mix of the two that is our society today.
language: English
title: Going Native
titlecomplete: Going Native
characters: Rho, Wylie Jones
genres: American, Modern, Mental Health, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 814
places: The United States of America
publisher: Vintage