<div>&ldquo;Set against the backdrop of Obama&rsquo;s ascendancy to the presidency . . . A complex and imaginative literary tapestry about family and identity&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). At once immediate and epic, funny and devastating, this new novel by the author of Shadowbahn is a transcendent dispatch from the intersection of art and politics, passion and memory. One November night in a canyon outside Los Angeles, Zan Nordhoc&mdash;a failed novelist turned pirate radio DJ&mdash;sits before the television with his small, adopted black daughter, watching the election of his country&rsquo;s first black president, Barack Obama. In the nova of this historic moment, with an economic recession threatening their home, Zan, his wife, and their son set out to solve the enigma of the little girl&rsquo;s life. When they find themselves scattered and strewn across two continents, a mysterious stranger with a secret appears, who sends the story spiraling forty years into the past. Sweeping from 1960s London and &rsquo;70s Berlin to twenty-first-century California, and the beginning-of-civilization Ethiopia, These Dreams of You chronicles not only a family struggling to salvage its bonds but a twelve-year-old boy readying himself for what the years to come hold. &ldquo;Truly electrifying. In its gorgeous, vivid prose and its acutely sensitive soul, These Dreams of You shows us just what a novel can still do in our own crazy times.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe &ldquo;Drama filled with exuberance.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;The four Nordhocs who provide the messy, vibrant heart of These Dreams of You make up a representative tableau for the new millennium: the American family as mash-up.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

These Dreams of You

<div>A washed-up novelist navigates the dreamscape of a cataclysm-ravaged Los Angeles In the apocalyptic Los Angeles of Amnesiascope, time zones multiply freely, spectral figures roam the streets, and rings of fire separate the city from the rest of the country. The narrator, a former novelist, lives in a hotel and writes film criticism for a newspaper whose offices are located in a bombed-out theater. Viv, his girlfriend, is a sexually voracious artist, and together the two are collaborating on an avant-garde pornographic film. But in this world, what&rsquo;s real and what&rsquo;s merely the conjuring of the protagonist&rsquo;s imagination&mdash;obsessed with dreams, movies, sex, and remembrance&mdash;is far from clear. At once outrageous and hypnotically lyrical, Amnesiascope enflames the reader&rsquo;s memory. </div>

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Amnesiascope

<div>A &ldquo;brilliant&rdquo; novel about an alternate America that has been split in two (San Francisco Chronicle). In a dystopian Los Angeles, Cale is a newly released political prisoner under surveillance. Beset by dark visions and relegated to working in a desolate library, he&rsquo;s told, without explanation, that he&rsquo;s &ldquo;the one everyone&rsquo;s looking for.&rdquo; For Catherine, a mysterious South American beauty, the crossing is no less extreme: Leaving her tribal life, she undergoes various confinements and escapes before winding up at the door of a Hollywood screenwriter. Finally Jack Mick Lake, possessed by numerology, must negotiate a river all his own. Stark and ethereal, Steve Erickson&rsquo;s tales connect to form a luminous and passionate whole.</div>

Rubicon Beach

<div>In a desperate effort to liberate herself, a fourteen-year-old slave&mdash;mistress to the man who invented America&mdash;finds herself flung into a different time and world Steve Erickson&rsquo;s provocative reimagining of American history, Arc d&rsquo;X begins with the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. With &ldquo;skin . . . too white to be quite black and too black to be quite white,&rdquo; Sally is loved only to the extent that she can be possessed, and finds hope only in the promise that her children&rsquo;s lives will be different from her own. The couple&rsquo;s paradox-riven union echoes through the ages and in an alternate epoch where time plays by other rules. In Aeonopolis, a theocratic city at the foot of a volcano, priests seek to have Sally indicted, and in an emptied-out Berlin, the Wall is being rebuilt. Dizzyingly imaginative, Arc d&rsquo;X is an unrivaled exploration of &ldquo;the pursuit of happiness.&rdquo; </div>

Arc d'X

<div>&ldquo;If you read one philosophical-doomsday kinky-sex road-trip novel this year, make it this one.&rdquo; &mdash;Salon It&rsquo;s New Year&rsquo;s Eve 1999, and the members of a powerful cult are about to commit ritual suicide. Fleeing their ranks at the final moment, teenager Kristin lands in Tokyo, where she gains employment listening to clients&rsquo; stories in a &ldquo;memory hotel&rdquo; designed to address the decay of Japanese collective memory after the Second World War. But Kristin herself has a startling odyssey: Among other things, it involves answering a personal ad only to wind up imprisoned, naked, in an empty house presided over by a man known as the Occupant, hard at work on a millennial calendar that has serious implications for the future. The Sea Came in at Midnight is a breathtaking fable of redemption and one of Erickson&rsquo;s most impressive visions to date. </div>

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The Sea Came in at Midnight

<div>In what the Guardian recently named one of the best literary debuts ever, a love triangle intersects with a lost film masterpiece and weather as turbulent as the heart Life stories converge and break away in Days Between Stations, Steve Erickson&rsquo;s searing first novel. At the center is the tumultuous union between Jason and Lauren, who fall in love as youths in Kansas, and later relocate to San Francisco. A cyclist training for the Olympics, Jason is often abroad and unfaithful; Lauren, in turn, finds solace in Michel, a nightclub manager trying to reconnect with his past. Michel&rsquo;s journey leads to The Death of Marat, a recovered lost masterwork of silent film directed by his grandfather, whose extraordinary life includes having grown up as an orphaned twin in a Parisian brothel. In a world shaped by sensuality and trauma, where sandstorms invade Los Angeles, the Seine freezes, bike racers vanish in Venice, and relationships are warped by amnesia, geological chaos and personal upheaval each wrenchingly reflect the other. </div>

Days Between Stations

<div>The course of a century is rewritten in this fabulously warped odyssey, named a best book of the year by the New York Times Tours of the Black Clock is a wild dream of the twentieth century as told by the ghost of Banning Jainlight. After a disturbing family secret is unearthed, Jainlight throws his father out of a window and burns down the Pennsylvania ranch where he grew up. He escapes to Vienna where he is commissioned to write pornography for a single customer identified as &ldquo;Client X,&rdquo; which alters the trajectory of World War II. Eventually Jainlight is accompanied by an aged and senile Adolf Hitler back to America, where both men pursue the same lover. Tours of the Black Clock is a story in which history and the laws of space and time are unforgettably transformed. </div>

Tours of the Black Clock

<div>The novel that inspired the film starring James Franco and Seth Rogen: &ldquo;One of a kind . . . a funny, unnervingly surreal page turner&rdquo; (Newsweek). Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post Book World, Newsweek, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review Zeroville centers on the story of Vikar, a young architecture student so enthralled with the movies that his friends call him &ldquo;cin&eacute;autistic.&rdquo; With an intensely religious childhood behind him, and tattoos of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on his head, he arrives in Hollywood&mdash;where he&rsquo;s mistaken for a member of the Manson family and eventually scores a job as a film editor. Vikar discovers the frames of a secret film within the reels of every movie ever made, and sets about splicing them together&mdash;a task that takes on frightening theological dimensions. Electrifying and &ldquo;darkly funny,&rdquo; Zeroville dives into the renegade American cinema of the 1970s and &rsquo;80s and emerges into an era for which we have no name (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;Funny, disturbing, daring . . . dreamlike and sometimes nightmarish.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;Magnificent.&rdquo; &mdash;The Believer &ldquo;[A] writer who has been compared to Vladimir Nabokov, Don DeLillo, and Thomas Pynchon.&rdquo; &mdash;Bookmarks Magazine &ldquo;Erickson is as unique and vital and pure a voice as American fiction has produced.&rdquo; &mdash;Jonathan Lethem</div>

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Books By Steve Erickson (8 Books)

These Dreams of You

Amnesiascope

Rubicon Beach

Arc d'X

The Sea Came in at Midnight

Days Between Stations

Tours of the Black Clock

Zeroville

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