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Any Day Now

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Kentucky-born Clay meets Roads, a beatnik college drop-out with pretensions of being the next Kerouac.

Suddenly Clay doesnt want to stay in Owensboro, become a mechanic and marry a hick girl from town.

He wants to be like Allen Ginsberg, Coltrane, Miles Davis.

Clay finds himself in New York City trying to make it.

But America is hit by a string of horrifying events the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFKs assassination, the Vietnam War.

Is there a place for a literary life in times of political unrest?

Any Day Now is an absorbing story of love, war and experimentation in 60s America.

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Product Details
Overlook Press
0715645153 / 9780715645154
Paperback / softback
813.54
28/02/2013
United States
English
General
288 p.