Kentucky-born Clay meets Roads, a beatnik college drop-out with pretensions of being the next Kerouac. Suddenly Clay doesnt want to stay in Owensboro, become a mechanic and marry a hick girl from town. He wants to be like Allen Ginsberg, Coltrane, Miles Davis. Clay finds himself in New York City trying to make it. But America is hit by a string of horrifying events the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFKs assassination, the Vietnam War. Is there a place for a literary life in times of political unrest? Any Day Now is an absorbing story of love, war and experimentation in 60s America.
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A Beat-inspired coming-of-age tale about growing up in 1960s America
An unsettling, funny, freaky reimagining of America, impeccably written by one of our most consistently interesting transgressors of literary boundaries

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780715645154
Publisert
2013-02-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Overlook Press
Vekt
249 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

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Terry Bisson is an award-winning writer who was part of the Grinnell 14 a college protest group that took an anti-nuclear demonstration to the White House. He has written seven novels and his short fiction has appeared in numerous publications. He lives in California. Find him online at: www.terrybisson.com