Terry Bisson's "Any Day Now"

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From award-winning author Terry Bisson, hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a wonder of seemingly effortless control and precision," comes a new novel, Any Day Now -- a literary tour de force, transcending the fundamental coming of age story to become a social commentary on the history and politics of a post Vietnam War society.

Growing up in the 1950s, a small town boy from Middle America makes his way to New York City amid the radicalized culture of the 1960s where he is torn between the antiwar movement and the hippie counterculture. When tragedy strikes, he flees to a utopian commune in the Southwest as a disputed presidential election brings the U.S. to the brink of a second world war.

Any Day Now is a reimaging of America, an alternate history to the unfolding of our society and culture, as we know it today. Testing the boundaries of fact and fiction in literature, Terry Bisson describes his debut literary novel as "not exactly science fiction, but not exactly not." The resulting story has been called “the masterpiece” by Jonathan Lethem.

Traveling from Kentucky to New York City to the Southwest, Bisson brings this road movie of a novel to life with an original, captivating voice and vivid prose, providing a transcendent commentary on America’s civil liberties and on the perils of growing up—then and now.

Terry Bisson is an award-winning writer and the author of seven novels. His short fiction has appeared in Playboy and Harper’s, among other magazines. He previously worked as an auto mechanic and as a magazine and book editor. Bisson lives in Oakland.

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