Standing fast: a novel - Harvey Swados

I read the first few chapters of this, glad to see it's up here, gonna have to finish it!

I loved this book. The Joe Link character is based on Stan Weir.

Don't you have a pdf version of this book?

I can't read this .mobi file on my Mac. Will I be able to read it if I upload it to my kndle?

paul r

Will I be able to read it if I upload it to my kndle?

Yes, that's what a mobi file is for, ebook readers.

to clarify .mobi is for Amazon readers. iOS devises and most others use .epub

You can convert from .mobi to .epub (and other formats) with Calibre (which works on Windows, iOS, and Linux). Thanks for making this book available here.

Also, in the "American Trotskyist roman a clef" genre, I really recommend Clancy Sigal's "Going Away".

Going Away is one of my all-time favorite novels. It's like a cross between Kerouac's On the Road and Brecher's Strike!, as the setting is a 1956 road trip from L.A. to New York by a militant who's glued to the car radio listening to news flashes from the uprising in Hungary, while zig-zagging across the U.S. touring sites of historical class struggle and having romantic interludes. I was so moved by the book that I found Sigal's e-mail address and asked him what his influences were. He said that On the Road was a definite inspiration, as well as his extensive reading of working class history.

“Let’s be frank,” Joe said. “There are guys who are in the Party now because we’re small. If we really grew, if we really became an influence, they’d flee.”