Rudolph Wurlitzer

Nog is about a man riding through American Space, space that is vast and choked and silent, space that one fills with obsessive monologues, disintegrating memories, hoped-for horizons, buried myths, paranoid plans. Nog rides through this space because that is what we do, that is the great and original promise, the central fact. He tries to define it, to embrace it, to settle it, to get through it, to be a witness to it. The road is brutal and energetic and frantic and sometimes funny, and certainly insanely fast. "A strange, singular book . . . somewhere between Psychedelic Superman and Samuel Beckett . . . full of classic, post-existential nausea. Despite (because of) the silence, the immobility, the slippery but thoroughly suffused sensuality, the book is an accomplishment." ?Newsweek "The most original, exciting, and talented new novel since Thomas Pynchon's V." ? Partisan Review

Drop Edge of Yonder

The Drop Edge of Yonder begins in the mountains of Colorado and ends in the far reaches of the Northwest, a journey that includes the beginnings of a Mexican revolution, a voyage across the Gulf of Mexico to Panama, and up the coast of California to San Francisco and the gold fields. Along the trail, Zebulon becomes involved in a series of tragic love triangles, witnesses the death of his mother and father, and confronts the age-old questions of life, love, and death.

The drop edge of yonder

The Drop Edge of Yonder is an adventurous book that explores the truth and temptations of the American myth. Beginning in the savage wilds of Colorado in the waning days of the fur trade, the story follows Zebulon Shook, a mountain man who has had a curse placed on him by a mysterious Native American woman whose lover he murdered. The book follows Zebulon as he encounters people obsessed with greed and the politics of expansion. The trail takes him from Colorado to the remote reaches of the Northwest, a journey that traverses the Gulf of Mexico to Panama, and up the coast of California to San Francisco and the gold fields. Far from being simply a “western,” The Drop Edge of Yonder focuses on a time that could be considered the starting point of American capitalism and expansionism, and has led Judith Thurman to refer to the book as “a subversive modern novel about the bounds of love and the discontents of civilized life.” The Drop Edge of Yonder originated as a screenplay treatment that intrigued Hollywood folk such as Sam Peckinpah, Hal Ashby, Yves Simeneau, Jim Jarmusch, Roger Spotiswoode, Alex Cox, and Richard Gere, before being adapted and expanded into this original novel by Wurlitzer.

The Drop Edge of Yonder

Quake

A Novel

It is the late 1960s in Hollywood and the Big One has just struck -- more than eight points on the Richter Scale. This novel is an account of how fear unravels people's emotions, how terror can be liberating and how people, even those in Hollywood, manage to survive.

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Lynn Davis

Monument

With a geography as diverse as the streets of Beverly Hills and the charnel grounds of India, a Mexican beach resort and the Russian Tea Room in New York City, this is a spare, eloquent, and deeply informed novel about the world of the movies. It is a profound and utterly convincing portrait of a man whose career and life has been devoted to the manipulation of images--on the screen and at the conference table, with actors and technicians--and the story of how, at the age of 71, he tries to divest himself of illusions and make peace with his demons and his past.

Slow Fade

A man drifts through the American West in the 1960s with an octopus in tow, inventing and discarding memories as he struggles to make sense of his life and his surroundings.

Cursed by a Native American woman for unknowingly killing her lover, Zebulon travels across the American West wondering which world--real, spirit, or imagined--he roams in and partaking in different escapades and tragedies.

On a journey through Southeast Asia, a writer discovers the survival of age-old truths in a world gone mad. "A brilliant corrective to euphemistic travel writing and a profound look at the spiritual life under duress... Wurlitzer sets a new standard of truth for the widening crowd of those who would write about the spiritual life." - San Francisco Chronicle "A dark jewel, sharp and compact...what a rare thing Wurlitzer has written: a book of spirit that cuts to the bone." - Voice Literary Supplement "Favorite 25 books of 1994"

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