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Overlook Hardcover
November 2008
On Sale: November 13, 2008
368 pages
ISBN: 159020090X
EAN: 9781590200902
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Non-Fiction
When George Canaris, a writing professor on the verge of
forced retirement at a small college in Ohio, is killed by
a hit-and-run driver, he is the first faculty member in
half a century whose death merits an obituary in The New
York Times. "A writer, a critic, a professor, a campus
legend and a national figure, the very embodiment of the
liberal arts," says the paper. And a mystery. "Compared to
Faulkner and Dos Passos at the start of his career," the
Times observed, "in the end he resembled Harper Lee."
With a book listed among the one hundred greatest novels of
all time, decades now separating him from the hefty advance
taken on his next book, The Beast, and not a page to show
of it, Canaris is an enigma. Inevitably, speculation grows
that the book was a myth, a lie, a joke. Upon his death, Mark May, a young English professor who
barely knew him finds himself named as Canaris's literary
executor and begins a search through lives and letters that
is at once gripping, hilarious, and affirming. A true page-
turner, Gone Tomorrow is equal parts Richard Russo and
Michael Chabon, and yet entirely unlike anything you've
ever read.
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