![]() ![]() In this novel, 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. It's sad, and it's droll and sometimes it's gorgeous. ![]() Against it, most new fiction reads like it was written by stenographers." Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A brilliantly imaginative novelist of the utmost seriousness and grace." William Gibson "A master, a dizzying rewriter of history, myth and apocalypse.there's no one in the world writing like Steve Erickson." Los Angeles Times Book Review "The only authentic American surrealist." Greil Marcus, Praise for Shadowbahn : "Steve Erickson's novel is: compassionate, weird, unpredictable, jaunty. Erickson's work feels like right here, right now. Praise for Steve Erickson: "One of the fabulous mythmakers who are needed in these times of deprivation of the imagination." New York Times Book Review "Marked by familiar coordinates but always in fantastic light, Erickson's writing seems both heroic and necessary." San Francisco Chronicle "Erickson has that rare and luminous gift for reporting back from the nocturnal side of reality." Thomas Pynchon "One of the most important writers of his generation. ![]()
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