Now is the Hour PDF
459 Pages·2006·0.4204 MB·other
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In 1967, seventeen-year-old Rigby John Klusener escapes the narrow confines of his strict, religious farming family and the bigoted community in which he has grown up to hitchhike to San Francisco to discover life's mysteries and his own identity. By the author of The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon. tarred Review. Spanbauer follows his well-received The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
with a risky assay into the traditional bildungsroman, with this
straightforward but luminous tale of a country boy's self-liberation. In
the summer of 1967, 17-year-old Rigby John Klusener is hitchhiking from
his hometown of Pocatello, Idaho, to San Francisco to escape a life of
religious, racial and sexual bigotry. He leaves behind a pregnant
girlfriend, a hopelessly mystified mother, an embittered father and a
sister trapped in a brutal marriage. As he waits for a ride out on the
deserted highway, he winds the story back to his childhood, then
virtually walks the reader through a life marked by hard farm work,
Catholic guilt and the liberating passion of deep friendships formed
with the most scandalously disreputable people of the community. From
his first school-yard fight to first experiences with sex (of various
sorts), cigarettes, alcohol, pot, jealousy and love, Rigby John's first
person is at once reliable and highly ironic; we may know better, but he
truly doesn't, and the distance is delicious. And his genuine
astonishment at other people (great names: Allen "Puke" Price; Grandma
Queep) keeps his telling edgy and warm, without allowing it to be
sentimental. (May 15)
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