RUBICON BEACH. [Paperback]

Steve. Erickson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: NY: POSEIDON PRESS. 1986 (1986)
• ASIN: B000VJ7OW2
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,471,941 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steve Erickson is the author of nine novels, including 2012's THESE DREAMS OF YOU, and two nonfiction works. His books have appeared on best-of-the-year lists in Newsweek, the Washington Post BookWorld, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice and the New York Times Book Review. He's the editor of the literary journal Black Clock, published by the California Institute of the Arts where he teaches; he also writes about film for Los Angeles magazine and the current presidential campaign for American Prospect. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' award in literature.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hauntingly beautiful, written beyond time and space, July 23, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Rubicon Beach: A Novel (Paperback)

I cannot possibly recommend this book enough. One could spend a decade reading this book with a shovel and still not find all the levels underneath. Erickson's gorgeous prose has gorgeous ideas to back it up. This book is about everything and everywhere, from the country of America and what lies to the West, to one little girl beautiful beyond compare with eyes that are blades of light. I do not have the word capacity to fully describe this book. But it is not for the weak. Ignore logic and physical time or space before you dare attempt it. Erickson fightened and delighted me. There cannot possibly be another book like it

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book of visions, December 13, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Rubicon Beach: A Novel (Paperback)

Steve Erickson doesn't write novels; he chronicles dreams. Set in a futurtist LA, where water floods the streets, the narrator goes about a mysterious quest. This is a book of shadow and light, enigma and truth. It will frustrate and amaze you at the same time. It is a rare book that looks to your intuition, rather than your mind, to decipher. Gorgeous and unsettling, like the best of Dali

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When's the movie coming out??, September 23, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Rubicon Beach: A Novel (Paperback)

A very ethereal and dreamlike book, it would make an amazing movie, probably directed by Ridley Scott or Wim Wenders. A journey into our minds, into America and into the spirit of Los Angeles. Having just moved to LA recently, I have been experiencing the surreal, alien nature of this city and Rubicon Beach expressed it perfectly.