{"product_id":"flats-quake","title":"Flats \/ Quake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[Rudolph Wurlitzer] is a writer whose continuing existence is very meaningful to me.\"--Michael Silverblatt, KCRW's \u003ci\u003eBookworm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"One of the most unique and fascinating American writers.\"--Dennis Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A major American writer.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"If you can legitimately judge a writer by fellow scribes who honestly extol his work, and count on his inhabiting a plane of popularity and celebrity similar to the one where his endorsers dwell, then Rudolph Wurlitzer should be a name on the lips of sage critics and fans of zesty, transgressive postmodernist fiction everywhere. Wurlitzer might be the closest thing we have to an actual cult author, a highly talented fiction writer.\"--Paul DiFilippo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlats\u003c\/i\u003e is a post-apocalyptic exploration of the human self. Submerged amidst a cast of characters named after ruined American cities who compete over a shrinking fringe of space, \u003ci\u003eFlats\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern masterpiece of the counterculture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuake\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the unraveling of society after an earthquake strikes 1960s Los Angeles. By painting a bleak picture of what people are capable of doing to one another in extreme circumstances, \u003ci\u003eQuake\u003c\/i\u003e is nihilistic and haunting, as well as uncomfortably foreboding. And more relevant than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRudolph Wurlitzer\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five novels\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e including \u003ci\u003eThe Drop Edge of Yonder\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNog\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlow Fade,\u003c\/i\u003e and the nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eHard Travel to Sacred Places\u003c\/i\u003e. Wurlitzer wrote the screenplays for such films as \u003ci\u003ePat Garrett and Billy the Kid\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwo-Lane Blacktop\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWalker\u003c\/i\u003e, among others, and he co-directed the film \u003ci\u003eCandy Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e with Robert Frank.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wurlitzer, Rudolph","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":54213937299739,"sku":"mon0000803970","price":36.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/9781847720160_1024x1024_2x_15ddf69f-be95-467b-b8c5-c660c3bdf180.jpg?v=1794160830","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/flats-quake","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}