Now Is the Hour - Hardcover

Spanbauer, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618584218 ISBN 13: 9780618584215

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006

Synopsis

The year is 1967, and Rigby John Klusener, seventeen years old and finally leaving his home and family in Pocatello, Idaho, is on the highway with his thumb out and a flower behind his ear, headed for San Francisco. Now Is the Hour is the wondrous story of how Rigby John got to this point. It traces his gradual emancipation from the repressions of a strictly religious farming family and from the small-minded, bigoted community in which he has grown up during a time of explosive cultural change. Transforming this familiar journey from American Graffiti to On the Road into something rich and strange and hilarious is the persona of Rigby John himself. Intimately in touch with his fears, hesitantly awakening to his own sexuality, and palpably open to life's mysteries, Rigby John is a protagonist whom readers will fall in love with, root for, and be moved by.

Now Is the Hour is a powerful, vastly entertaining story of self-awakening, of the complex bonds of family, and ultimately of America during a period of tremendous upheaval.

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Review:

"Now Is the Hour" is at once beautiful and hilarious.

Sophisticated, funny, poignant, sexy coming-of-age novel...

Spanbauer is a generous writer..."Now Is the Hour" is an engaging novel.

A risky assay into the traditional bildungsroman, with this straightforward, but luminous tale.

Full of hope, sadness and humor, this is an extended ballad in the voice of an appealing narrator

Spanbauer writes this fairly traditional coming-of-age story with a raw energy that makes it compelling.

Book Description:

Triumphant return from the author of cult classic The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0618584218
• ISBN 13: 9780618584215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480