The History of Now

Name: The History of Now
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Daniel Klein
ISBN: 9781433298950

Author: Daniel Klein

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Unabridged: 11 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 04/20/2009

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Small, almost imperceptible changes are rippling through the New England village of Grandville, altering it in ways its inhabitants cannot yet imagine. Laced through a narrative of one recent year in Grandville's history are stories that reach back to a 17th century family in Rotterdam, and 18th century migration by a farmer's lonely son in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a 19th century underground railway journey by a gifted runaway slave. Each episode comes to bear on the lives of Grandvilles current residents. Does every event, no matter how small or distant in the past influence all events that follow?

About Daniel Klein

Daniel Klein is the author of The History of Now, winner of ForeWord magazine’s Silver Award for best literary novel of 2009. He is also coauthor of Heidegger and a Hippo Walk through Those Pearly Gates and the New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. He is the author of the 2012 bestseller Travels with Epicurus and numerous other works of fiction, nonfiction, and humor. A graduate of Harvard in philosophy, he lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Norah

This novel was a delight to read. Philosophical and quirky, filled with characters just a little too odd to be normal -- this narrative continually surprised me. It is about small towns and young love and theatre production, about an old fashioned movie house and a philosophy class called 'Phil of F......more

Goodreads review by Mara

As a story about life in a small town in western Massachusetts, this book isn't bad. Unfortunately, it tries to be a lot more than that. Many chapters begin with vaguely interesting historical vignettes about the ancestors of the family at the center Then we have the story of Hector as he moves from......more

Goodreads review by Karen

Definitely not what I expected when I read the endflaps, but still a good read. I found the way the stories were intertwined was interesting.......more

Goodreads review by Allison

Daniel Klein's novel, The History of Now, is an ingenious philosophical examination of cause and effect and, at the same time, an engaging story of a small-town family. That Klein manages to execute both premises successfully is impressive indeed. The New England village of Grandville has been the h......more