false<![CDATA[Gone Tomorrow]]>34099171When 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 <i>The New York Times</i>. "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 <i>Times</i> observed, "in the end he resembled Harper Lee." <P>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, <i>The Beast</i>, 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. <P>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, <i>Gone Tomorrow</i> is equal parts Richard Russo and Michael Chabon, and yet entirely unlike anything you've ever read.345017013112008Gone Tomorrowtotal:84|5:8|4:41|3:28|2:4|1:3|842991923840falsefalseMon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008Fri Dec 26 16:04:14 -0800 2008Fri Dec 26 17:33:32 -0800 2008
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Gone Tomorrow is an intriguing book. I don't often enjoy the structure of alternating time-line narratives, but this was handled deftly. I was equally interested in both past and present, and neither caused the story to drag. The writing was elevated without being pretentious, and the overall eff...more...]]>
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It's a phenomenal book, witty, warm and wise. I will read it again.]]>
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