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Time's Up! is a memoir by the novelist Robert Cabot, whose first book, The Joshua Tree (1970), was one of the earliest of American eco-fictions. This memoir covers the first 75 years of his long life, coinciding with the decades of America's emergence as a world power from the 1920s to the end of the twentieth century. Cabot alternates chapters of his life (including extensive service in World War Two) with chapters about changes in America, including the counter culture of the '60s and the rise of consumerism.

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"If I get to heaven and Robert is there, I'll still have a few questions for him. In the meantime, his memoir about a life of privilege and conscience is a dazzling answer to the question of what it means to become an American writer. And as he's still here among us in his ninth decade, now's the time to celebrate the richness of his wild adventures -- Susan Cheever ""(publisher)"""

"""If I get to heaven and Robert is there, I'll still have a few questions for him. In the meantime, his memoir about a life of privilege and conscience is a dazzling answer to the question of what it means to become an American writer. And as he's still here among us in his ninth decade, now's the time to celebrate the richness of his wild adventures"" - Susan Cheever"

If I get to heaven and Robert is there, I'll still have a few questions for him. In the meantime, his memoir about a life of privilege and conscience is a dazzling answer to the question of what it means to become an American writer. And as he's still here among us in his ninth decade, now's the time to celebrate the richness of his wild adventures -- Susan Cheever (publisher)

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A veteran of many of the campaigns of World War II, Robert Cabot fictionalized some of his experiences in his four years as a sergeant in his novel The Isle of Khería. He received degrees from Harvard College and Yale Law School, served for ten years in the Marshall Plan and foreign aid programs in Italy, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Washington, D.C., and resigned from the foreign service in protest over U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. He has since worked with intentional communities, the citizen diplomacy movement, and environmental and social change projects. He lived for many years in Italy and Greece, returning to the U.S. in a solo transatlantic sail with his thirty-foot sloop in 1976. Writing, however, is his first love. He has written several novels. The most recent, the aforementioned The Isle of Khería, was published in 2012. Several of his articles are also published. Cabot is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, the McDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ucross Foundation. Cabot lives on Whidbey Island, Washington, with his wife Penny. Between them, they have six children, and a bevy of children's children. For several months a year he retreats to a mountain town in Southeastern Arizona where he is working on a new novel, The Mango Tree.

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