Bookbot

Steve Erickson

    Steve Erickson è un autore celebrato le cui opere approfondiscono le complessità dell'identità americana e dei cambiamenti sociali. La sua scrittura, caratterizzata da una prosa ricca e spesso surreale, esplora gli angoli più oscuri della psiche umana e la fluidità della realtà. L'approccio letterario di Erickson è visivo e atmosferico, attirando i lettori nelle sue narrazioni come quadri cinematografici. I suoi romanzi giocano con linee temporali frammentate e personaggi ambigui, spingendo alla riflessione sulla natura della memoria e della storia.

    Arc d'X
    Amnesiascope
    Tours of the Black Clock
    Days Between Stations
    The Sea Came in at Midnight
    ZEROVILLE
    • ZEROVILLE

      • 329pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Zeroville begins in 1969 on Hollywood Boulevard, when a Greyhound bus drops off a film-obsessed ex-seminarian with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattooed on his head. Vikar Jerome steps into the vortex of a cultural transformation: rock ’n’ roll, sex, drugs, and — far more important to him — the decline of the movie studios and the rise of the independent director. Jerome will become a film editor of astonishing vision. Then through encounters with former starlets, burglars, political guerillas, punk musicians, and veteran filmmakers, he discovers the astonishing secret that lies in every movie ever made.

      ZEROVILLE
      4,1
    • The Sea Came in at Midnight

      • 259pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      It's New Year'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' stories in a "memory hotel" designed to address the decay of 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's most impressive visions to date.

      The Sea Came in at Midnight
      4,0
    • Days Between Stations

      • 253pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      In a world of cataclysm and unraveled time, a young woman's face, a misbegotten childhood in a Parisian brothel, and the fragment of a lost movie masterpiece are the only clues in a man's search for his past. Steve Erickson's Days Between Stations is the stunning, now classic dream-spec of our precarious age - by turns beautiful and obsessed, haunted and hallucinated, in which lives erotically collide, the past ambushes the future, and forbidden secrets intercut with each other like the frames of a film.

      Days Between Stations
      4,0
    • Tours of the Black Clock

      • 320pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      A fantasy novel in which Steve Erickson takes the reader on a journey through another 20th century, eliding conventional borders of time and place to conduct an exploration of the underside of civilization.

      Tours of the Black Clock
      3,8
    • Amnesiascope

      • 240pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      A portrait of early-twenty-first-century Los Angeles and an American asylum is seen from the perspective of a narrator who lives on the edge of reality and brings together such characters as nomadic artists, reluctant pornographers, and alienated movie critics

      Amnesiascope
      3,8
    • Arc d'X

      • 298pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Steve Erickson--the author of Days Between Stations and Tours of the Black Clock--fearlessly applies his masterfully inventive pen to the secret love of Thomas Jefferson. For in Jefferson's love for his slave, Sally Hemmings, lies the emblematic dilemma that has forged our nation's destiny--the tension between history's denial of the dictates of the human heart and our secret pursuit of the heart's expression.

      Arc d'X
    • The Sandman - 3: Dream Country

      • 160pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      A collection of stories, comics, and plays that deal with never ending dreams.

      The Sandman - 3: Dream Country
    • Pornograaf in de zwarte tijd

      • 342pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Een jonge man neemt wraak op zijn familie wanneer hij zijn ware afkomst ontdekt en gaat vervolgens pornografische verhalen schrijven om de kost te verdienen.

      Pornograaf in de zwarte tijd
    • Rubicon Beach

      • 311pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Der zweite, äußerst einfallsreiche Roman dieses vielgelobten, jungen Schriftstellers aus Los Angeles. Diese Geschichte ist eine Warnung an diejenigen, die den Mut fehlen, den Rubikon ihrer Fantasie zu überschreiten.

      Rubicon Beach