Making Out

Making Out is a novel about a man (David Carter) who writesa novel about his life as seen through the eyes of his protagonist,David Nickelson. During his journey (from seventh grade throughhis forty-year class reunion) Nickelson, along with many of the otherCarter characters, will not only win your heart, but they will makeyou wish that you had lived during those years accurately describedas the Fabulous Fifties.Making Out will bring back memories to those who livedduring that era, but it will also allow its younger readers to see, feel,and experience how life was when their grandparents were young,discovering, as they will, that those ancient ones were a whole lotmore wild than any of them could imagine. But the 1950s wereonly the root years. David Nickelsons life did go on. Experiencewith Nickelson and his friendstheir drinking habits, their gangwarsand their brutal personal altercations; discover their religiousbeliefs, their early attitude toward, and participation in, the drugscene; learn of their wild sexual antics along with the tendernessthey could, at the same time, show to those they loved. Learn abouttheir love of hot cars, their attitude toward those in authority,their dealings with whores, and their perspective on minority issues. Last, travel with Nickelson to Viet Nam. Learn what he learned,and how he dealt with what he discovered. And upon his return,learn how he, and his friends, made out in a world changing so fast itmade them long for those days when life was easy, when the futurefor them seemed so fi lled with good things to come.Read Making Out and you will learn history, not as it hasbeen portrayed by the media, but as it actually happened. ReadMaking Out and you will know that America can still return toits roots, its core values, and by doing so become, once again, theCountry it once was.