Books
June, 1977
Dan Wakefield's new novel, Home Free (Delacorte), is one of those innocuous efforts: a pause that refreshes but doesn't satisfy. Gene, 23, is a college student who doesn't know what to do with his life. He shacks up with Louise, but that relationship ends when the pizza gets cold waiting for her to come home and boredom becomes an unwelcome roomie. There's the usual assortment of crazy friends, women, drugs, weird scenes. Wakefield's novel lacks insight, but it makes up for it in mileage: Gene h...
