In Orbit - 9780803258303

In OrbitAuthor(s): Wright Morris\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803258303, 978-0803258303\nSynopsis\nOne of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris [tel] wrote thirty-three books including The Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award.\n\n\""In the space of one day, Jubal E. Gainer, high school dropout and draft dodger, manages to rack up an impressive array of crimes. . . . He steals a friend's motorcycle, rapes a simple-minded spinster, mugs a pixyish professor, and stabs an obese visionary who runs a surplus store. He then waits out an Indiana twister and goes his way, leaving as much wreckage in his path as the twister itself.\""--Library Journal.\n\n\""In Orbit is a short novel, full of action, and the seriousness can mostly be found between the lines. [There] one can see against what Jubal Gainer's rebellion, thoughtless and aimless as it seems, is directed. One.