Can I read Gone for Good on EtoBox?

Gone for Good by Childress, Mark is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Gone for Good about?

In his fifth novel, the author gives us the wild, comic, and ultimately moving odyssey of a 1970s folk-rock star, Ben "Superman" Willis. Superman has been riding a wave of success in the years since the Beatles broke up and rock and roll wore itself out. But stardom is not what he thought it would be: the only time he's truly happy is when he's up in his plane, flying alone to the next concert, his son Ben Junior stashed at home in L.A., and his wife Alexa - a former Miss Southwest Louisiana - following along in a bus down below. One night, after a show in El Paso, he flies head-on into the adventure of his life. A fierce thunderstorm, an emergency landing in Mexico, and some mind-blowing dope send him thousands of miles off course to a perilous crash landing on a beautiful, mysterious tropical island - a vision of Paradise, and, on the beach, a remarkable female apparition. Back home, Alexa and Ben Junior are stunned by the news of Superman's disappearance. The out-of-this-world memorial concert at the Hollywood Bowl is no more than a brief distraction from the cataclysmic changes that occur when a man vanishes from the face of the earth. What they don't know, and what Superman wi

Who reads Gone for Good?

Author

Childress, Mark

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375400216

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.4 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14