Gone Tomorrow: A Novel

"A sharply observed yet tender novel of academic life and its many sand traps" from the acclaimed author of Eddie and the Cruisers (The New York Times).

One of NPR's Best Books of 2008

Kluge's brilliant novel tells of George Canaris, a writing professor who is on the verge of forced retirement at a small college in Ohio when he is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Kluge's creation of Canaris as the first faculty member in half a century whose death merits an obituary in the New York Times ...