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Erickson's journal of the last 18 months of the Trump presidency sears the page. [He] ... has long been [a] political observer, and American Stutter--part political declaration, part humorous account of more personal matters--offers a particularly moving reminder of the democratic ideals that we are currently struggling to preserve. Written with wit, eloquence, and a controlled fury as events unfold, Erickson has left us with [a] record of our...

There are spine-chilling secrets hiding behind your refrigerator door!When you close the refrigerator door, does light inside really go out? And if it doesn't, what might be happening inside? Readers are about to discover the cold hard truth of what actually goes on within the walls of their seemingly dark and peaceful refrigerator.

An exploration of desire and loss with a millennium theme - 2, 000 women walk off a cliff, one escapes.

A vent'anni dal crollo, d'improvviso riappaiono le Torri Gemelle. Il primo a vederle è Aaron, l'autista di un camion rosso e oro, sul paraurti un adesivo: «Salvate l'America da se stessa». Aaron le scorge dietro una curva della Highway 44, mentre viaggia sulla striscia d'asfalto che taglia l'orizzonte desolato del South Dakota. È lì che le Torri riappaiono, identiche a prima: non a New York, nel cuore di Manhattan, ma a margine del luogo che p...

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An exploration of desire and loss with a millennium theme - 2, 000 women walk off a cliff, one escapes.

Poiché non avevo mai fatto un sogno, una notte mi sono svegliata e sono andata a cercarne uno..." Alle soglie del nuovo millennio, dagli abissi scivolosi della memoria una giovane di diciassette anni sussurra la sua storia all'orecchio di un uomo morto. Duemillesima vittima di un suicidio di massa degli ultimi istanti del Ventesimo secolo, lei, Kristin, è riuscita a sfuggire al suo destino e nel risveglio del mondo futuro incontra l'Occupante,...

Cinefilo allo spasimo, Erickson, eppure, allo stesso tempo, un passo oltre, e altrove: nei territori del sogno. Forse, a una prima lettura, "Zeroville" potrebbe sembrare un romanzo su Hollywood, carico com'è di citazioni e rimandi ellittici da iniziati, un romanzo per cinefili, uno di quei libri che escludono appunto tutti quelli che iniziati non lo sono neanche un po'. Ma sarebbe fermarsi al primo livello, perché non è un romanzo su Hollywood...

* What's the point of studying business from a social perspective? * How can sociology aid my understanding of the big issues facing businesses today? * Can thinking sociologically really equip me better for a career in business? This book provides an indispensable introduction to business and organizations from a social perspective. Using classic and contemporary ideas and evidence, the book explores the connections between people, work, o...

* What's the point of studying business from a social perspective? * How can sociology aid my understanding of the big issues facing businesses today? * Can thinking sociologically really equip me better for a career in business? This book provides an indispensable introduction to business and organizations from a social perspective. Using classic and contemporary ideas and evidence, the book explores the connections between people, work, o...

In the waning summer days, a lake appears almost overnight in the middle of Los Angeles. Out of fear and love, a young single mother commits a desperate act: convinced that the lake means to take her small son from her, she determines to stop it and becomes the lake's Dominatrix-Oracle, "the Queen of the Zed Night." Acclaimed by many critics as Steve Erickson's greatest novel, "Our Ecstatic Days" takes place on the forbidden landscape of a def...

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A Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek Best Book of the YearIt is an August afternoon in 1969. A hippie "family" led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders in the canyons above L.A. The same day, a young, ex-communicated theology student walks Hollywood Boulevard, having just arrived in town with the images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattooed on his shaved head. At once childlike and violent, Vikar is not a cin...

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Zan Nordhoc, a failed novelist turned pirate radio DJ, sits before the television with his small, adopted black daughter, watching the election of his country's first black president. In the nova of this historic moment, Zan, his wife, and their son set out to solve the enigma of the little girl's life.

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A fragment of a film, a young woman's face are the only clues in a man's search for his pastfrom hallucinatory Los Angeles where the freeways are buried in sand and dust storms obscure the sun to a Paris where the lights have gone out and bonfires burn in the streets. Lives intercut with each other and past joins future in a seamless flow, while the present remains elusive and fleeting. Steve Erickson's hypnotic, first novel is a dreamscape wh...

A LA TIMES' BEST BOOK OF 2017 (FICTION)"A beautiful, moving, strange examination of apocalypse and rebirth." - Neil Gaiman"Erickson has mobilized so much of what feels pressing and urgent about the fractured state of the country in a way that feels fresh and not entirely hopeless, if only because the exercise of art in opposition to complacent thought can never be hopeless." - New York Times Book ReviewA chronicle of a weird road trip, a provo...

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When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the badlands of South Dakota twenty years after their fall, nobody can explain their return. To the hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands drawn to the "American Stonehenge"--including Parker and Zema, siblings on their way from Los Angeles to visit their mother in Michigan--the Towers seem to sing, even as everybody hears a different song. A rumor overtakes the throng that someone can be see...