Now Is the Hour
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407014289
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

Now Is the Hour

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1 Sep 2010
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30 Nov 2017
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'White small-town America gets its cherry busted in an orgy of cigarette smoke and racism' - Chuck Palahniuk

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.
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407014289
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480
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About the author

Tom Spanbauer

Tom Spanbauer is the author of three previous novels, Far Away Places, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon and In the City of Shy Hunters. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he writes and teaches 'Dangerous Writing' classes. His former students include Chuck Palahniuk.

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Praise for Now Is the Hour

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

Rich with knowing... deft, funny, heartbreaking... I LOVE THIS BOOK

A.M. Homes

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

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