{"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\u003eincluding \u003ci\u003eThe Drop Edge of Yonder\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNog\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlow Fade, \u003c\/i\u003eand 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRudolph Wurlitzer is an acclaimed screenwriter and the author of The Drop Edge of Yonder, Quake, Flats, Slow Fade, and the nonfiction book, Hard Travel to Sacred Places.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50331164344594,"sku":"9780982015148","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e6e98ffc-7cfe-4d8b-96a7-e757a551b7d6.jpg?v=1727808222","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flats-quake","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}