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The Company You Keep

Set against the rise and fall of the radical antiwar group the Weather Underground, The Company You Keep is a sweeping American saga about sacrifice, the ecstatic righteousness of youth, and the tension between political ideals and family loyalties. When Jason Sinai, one of the last Vietnam-era fugitives still wanted on murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974, encounters a young newspaper reporter in search of a story, he must abandon years of safe underground life for the dangerous life of the road traveling across America and deep into his past. It is a vivid re-creation of lives lived undergroundof battle-scarred veterans, ideologues, profiteers, criminals, and bystanders.

Themes
movies
Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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