1976: A BICENTENNIAL NOVEL is the concluding part of the trilogy which includes THE THIEVES OF YOUTH and WHEN SIX WAS NINE. Lucian Goldman has finally come of age and is finally a man. He wants to take his new girlfriend to California so they can live there together, he as a writer, she as a painter, and the two of them in eternal love. The only problem is the father who has been his biggest supporter is dying at home in Brooklyn