Steve Erickson, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6472-3
Erickson's dreamlike, postapocalyptic seventh novel, a follow-up to the well-received Sea Came in at Midnight
, takes place in and around a lake that stands in what was once the middle of Los Angeles. Through a handful of fractured narratives,...
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Steve Erickson, Author . Europa $14.95 (329p) ISBN 978-1-933372-39-6
Set primarily in Los Angeles from the late 1960s through 1980s, this darkly funny, wise but flawed novel from Erickson (Arc d’X
) focuses on our collective fascination with movies. Vikar Jerome, whose almost deranged film fixation manifests...
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Steve Erickson, Author Vintage Books USA $6.95 (253p) ISBN 978-0-394-74685-2
Plagued by amnesia, Michel Sarasan has an affair with a married woman, then goes to Paris to try to jog his memory. PW commented: ""A plot rampant with ambiguities and bizarre harbingers of doomsday in a futuristic world and the author's...
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Steve Erickson, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-380-97766-6
Strip clubs, sexual slavery, Paris dreams, New York horror and California misery catastrophically define and entrap the troubled margin-dwellers inhabiting this penetrating dream vision of the post-nuclear world. At the center is Kristin, who...
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Steve Erickson, Author Simon & Schuster $18.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-64921-0
With the surreal effects of William Burroughs, Erickson spells out a nightmarish vision of the seedy underbelly of the Twentieth Centurya phrase that's portentously capitalized throughout this wildly uneven phantasmagoria. Its anti-hero, Banning...
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Steve Erickson, Author Simon & Schuster $18.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-671-67134-1
The 1988 presidential campaign serves as Erickson's springboard for a quirky free-floating meditation on the bankruptcy of American politics. He berates the Right for ``false faith'' and for grossly deforming the conservative tradition; he chides...
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Steve Erickson, Author Simon & Schuster $20 (304p) ISBN 978-0-671-74296-6
Erickson, who has attracted a strong following with his three novels (the most recent was Tours of the Black Clock ) and the memoir Leap Year , has now written his most provocative novel yet, an apocalyptic narrative in which he yokes his grim...
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Steve Erickson, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5155-1
""They told you it was a war for the soul of America,"" Erickson (Arc d'X) opens portentously, in an uneasy attempt to graft High Meaning on an entertaining narrative loosely centered on the 1995-96 presidential campaign. Hired by Rolling Stone to...
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Steve Erickson, Author Henry Holt & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3503-2
A postmodern flaneur in a spectral, futuristic L.A., the narrator of Erickson's foggy, metafictional fifth novel is a former novelist known only as ""S."" Self-absorbed, verging on paranoid schizophrenia, S delivers a sustained, often...
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Steve Erickson. Europa, $15 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-60945-063-2
Erickson (Zeroville) follows middle-aged Caucasian Alexander “Zan” Nordhoc’s adoption of a four year-old Ethiopian girl, beginning on the eve of Barack Obama’s election and leaping back 50 years and forward to a newly cross-cultural world. Daughter...
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Steve Erickson. Blue Rider, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1201-5
In Erickson’s mind-bending latest, the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the South Dakota badlands 20 years after 9/11, and as gawkers gather from around the fractured remains of the United States to see the structures, Jesse Presley, the twin of...
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