9/30/55

By John Minahan

Categories: Literature & Fiction

9/30/55 (1977) is a novel by John Minahan, based on a screenplay by James Bridges, named after the date of actor James Dean's death in a car crash. In a small Arkansas college town, a young student is devastated when he hears that Dean has been killed. His grief leads him and his friends into a night of reckless behaviour, as he tries to come to terms with the loss of his idol and with his own future.

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