Now Is the Hour

Now Is the Hour

Summary

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.

Reviews

  • Rich with knowing... deft, funny, heartbreaking... I LOVE THIS BOOK
    A.M. Homes

About the author

Tom Spanbauer

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