Now Is the Hour - Softcover

Spanbauer, Tom

4.12

1,170 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099506955 ISBN 13: 9780099506959

Publisher: Vintage, 2008

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1967. Rigby John Kluesener stands in the moonlight, a flower in his hair, his thumb out trying to hitch a ride on the road to San Francisco. The story of how he came to be there - of an adolescence spent on his parents' farm in Nowheresville, Idaho, of his father's misanthropy, his mother's strict Catholicism - is utterly real and totally unforgettable.

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Review:

"Rich with knowing... deft, funny, heartbreaking... I LOVE THIS BOOK" (A.M. Homes)

"Powerful... a funny, sensitive picture of a young man whose plight will resonate with your inner idealist" (Dazed & Confused)

"A quintessential American tale of emancipation... Spanbauer both ironises and embraces the classic American tropes his story draws on - Rigby John is a self-aware, self-deprecating, extremely witty narrator" (Metro)

"Sophisticated, funny, poignant, sexy... Rigby's storytelling voice is natural, warm and positively addictive. The many pages of this breathtaking, romantic and unpredictable novel fly past. Rarely does such a gripping story match with such a loveable character. Sit back and enjoy the lovely partnership" (Booklist)

Book Description:

'White small-town America gets its cherry busted in an orgy of cigarette smoke and racism' - Chuck Palahniuk

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