Shelby's Time

Shelby's Time is the kind of novel you suspect will fall apart halfway through. And yet—somewhere between absurdist comedy and ascending confusion—the book begins to cohere.Shelby believes he's from the future, with the barest of proof. It also doesn't seem to help him, or anyone else, even if it's true.  He bounces from town to town, job to job, and girl to girl—from Rat Town to Sea Cliff—a town ...