Synopses & Reviews
**One of NPR's best books of 2008**
**One of The Cleveland Plain Dealer's top 10 Fiction titles of 2008**
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.
Synopsis
Part mystery, part love story, "Gone Tomorrow" is the newest work from the author of "Eddie and the Cruisers." Dazzles from the first page and intrigues from the first shrewd twist of its plot.--Martin Scorsese.