Now Is the Hour - Softcover

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

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.

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

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

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

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. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.