Any Day Now
This tour de force, road movie of a novel is a poignant excursion into
the last days of the Beats and the radicalized culture of the 1960s,
from Kentucky to New York City and beyond. Written in a voice that is
warmhearted and hauntingly original, Any Day Now is the story of
Clay, a small-town boy whose future is all mapped out. It travels as far as an isolated New Mexico commune under threat from a national
revolution, with Clay battling to find his place in the new America -
and hoping desperately to forget what happened back East with the girl
he loved.
Bisson, whose prose brings to life this wild tale in the vein of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, has written a transcendent commentary on America's civil liberties and the perils of growing up, then and now.
“An unsettling, funny, freaky reimagining of America, impeccably written, by one of our most consistently interesting transgressors of literary boundaries.” - Michael Chabon
“This is the best fiction about what's called the Sixties ever written. If you were there then, this is where you were.” - John Crowley
Terry Bisson
Terry Ballantine Bisson (born 1942) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He is best known for his short stories, including "Bears Discover Fire" (1990), which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards.