Going

In Granada a boy in a dress begs in the white alleys of the old town. A vulnerable runaway he turns to an American painter who is living in the city for protection Madeleine James. The boy also meets Madeleines new friend poet Cy Jacobs. Although the two adults mean to help the boy they unwittingly expose him to more peril. Soon all the characters in the story have been scraped on the touchstone of hard realities and made to show their mettle be it base or gold. This novel at times somber and at times flaring with intensity calls up indelibly the difficulties of making a good life - or a good death - in a world in which we are all in one way or another going.