P F Kluge: 9 books

Book cover of Gone Tomorrow
by P.F. Kluge
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009

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...
Book cover of The Edge of Paradise
by P. F. Kluge
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015

In 1967 the Peace Corps sent P. F. Kluge to paradise - or so the American possessions in Micronesia seemed. His assignment was as noble as it was adventurous: to help the people of those half-forgotten Pacific islands move from old to new, so that paradise would have prosperity and freedom as well as...
Book cover of Alma Mater: A College Homecoming
by P.F. Kluge
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2014

An alumnus of Kenyon College as well as a faculty member, Kluge presents a knowledgeable examination of the dynamics, character, traditions, tensions, and pretensions of the small, private, and costly school. Famous teachers include John Crowe Ransom, and famous students include E.L. Doctorow.
Book cover of The Williamson Turn
by P. F. Kluge
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

"When you’re on a three-and-a-half month voyage around the world, you ought to be able to sit and consider the sea."Will Post, a celebrated and sometimes controversial columnist, is a professor on the MV Explorer's Semester at Sea program, sailing around the world teaching the ups and downs of travel...
Book cover of Eddie and the Cruisers
by P.F. Kluge
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008

Overlook is proud to put P. F. Kluge’s classic Eddie and the Cruisers—“the book that spawned the movies?—in paperback for the first time, so it can find a new generation of readers. Eddie and his Jersey-bred band, The Parkway Cruisers, were going places. With an album and a few minor hits...
Book cover of The Master Blaster
by P.F. Kluge
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012

This captivating novel intertwines the stories of several inhabitants on Saipan, America's least-appreciated tropical island. George Griffin is a jaded writer who comes for a press junket and stays far longer than expected; Stephanie Warner is a university professor recently on "trial separation"...
Book cover of The Day That I Die
by P. F. Kluge
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016

Retired marine colonel "Red" Elwell is sent on government business to the island of Peleliu, the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. On the night of his arrival, he is ambushed in the jungle by a band of men and bayoneted to death. Elwell had been a war hero and a public figure, and...
Book cover of Final Exam
by P.F. Kluge
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014

As a child in 1906, Arne Horsfall finds a sealed crate, addressed to a professor at a local college, that has fallen off a train. His father stores the object in the barn until the wayward professor can pick it up. But the crate operates like a Pandora's box on Arne and his mother; overcome with curiosity,...
Book cover of A Call From Jersey
by P.F. Kluge
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011

Set in the1980's it follows the life of Hans Greifinger, a German-American who immigrated to the United States in 1928 and built a life for himself and his son, George, who has adopted the surname Griffin for his nationally-syndicated lackluster travel column.
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