Now and Then
- Published
- 1 January 2007
- Pages
- 296
- ISBN-13
- 9780399154416
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 2007 at 296 pages, Now and Then is the 35th entry in the Spenser series. In the reading order it comes right after Hundred-Dollar Baby and just before Rough Weather.
Key facts about Now and Then
Now and Then is a novel by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 2007. It runs to 296 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Now and Then. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780399154416 to find the main one.
Now and Then is book 35 of 55 in the Spenser series. The series has 54 published books. However, the series starts with The Godwulf Manuscript (1973).
Additionally, Robert B. Parker writes Jesse Stone, Sunny Randall and Cole and Hitch as separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and western shelves. Meanwhile, Silent Night is the latest published Robert B. Parker book on file, from 2013.
About Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker was an American crime novelist credited with reviving and modernizing the hardboiled detective genre for the late twentieth century. A former English professor with a doctoral dissertation on Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, he channeled that scholarship into the Spenser series, following a wisecracking, code-bound Boston private investigator across nearly forty novels beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript in 1973. See every Robert B. Parker book in order.
Its place in Spenser
Now and Then is book 35 in the Spenser series. It follows Hundred-Dollar Baby. It is followed by Rough Weather. See the full Spenser reading order.
Spenser is a Boston private investigator -- ex-boxer, Korean War veteran, gourmet cook, wisecracking romantic -- whose one-name toughness (never explained beyond a nod to the Elizabethan poet) masks a code of honor as rigid as any knight's. Robert B. Parker launched the series in 1973 with The Godwulf Manuscript and spent nearly four decades refining a template that became the genre standard: terse, dialogue-driven prose, a hero who talks his way through trouble as often as he fights his way out, and a real…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399154416