Breakaway Days Is An Attempt At America-Picaresque A Young American’S Road City And Foreign Territory Story Remembered Several Decades Later Violence-Light Given That Nearly All Of The Novel’S Recalled Time-Frame Is The 1950’S For A Young Adult’S Hasty Introduction To Adventuring To Many Of Life’S Wins And Unavoidable Losses. So Starting As A Nineteen Year-Old Stuck In The Particulars Of A Sport (Baseball)Of His Being A Dreamer Without A Conclusive Dream Plus His Having Concerns About “The Draft” And Of What A Meaningful Life Should Consist Of Breakaway Days Protagonist Encounters The Unexpected And Finds Numerous Illusions Kept And Many Illusions Shredded. . . Readers May Be Reminded Of Twain’S Huck Finn Were Huck Nearing His 20’S Of Hemingway’S Nick Adams Tales And The Writings Of Jack London Being Surprised However By The Outcomes.