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Our Ecstatic Days

Steve Erickson

In the waning summer days, a lake appears almost overnight in the middle of Los Angeles. Out of fear and love, a young single mother commits a desperate act: convinced that the lake means to take her small son from her, she determines to stop it and becomes the lake's Dominatrix-Oracle, "the Queen of the Zed Night." Acclaimed by many critics as Steve Erickson's greatest novel, Our Ecstatic Days takes place on the forbidden landscape of a defiant heart.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publish Date: Jan 18th, 2006
  • Pages: 336
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.90in - 0.70in - 1.10lb
  • EAN: 9780743285100
  • Categories: • Literary• Fantasy - Contemporary

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About the Author

Erickson, Steve: - Steve Erickson is the author of six other acclaimed novels -- including Days Between Stations and Tours of the Black Clock -- as well as two books about American politics and popular culture. The editor of the literary magazine Black Clock, he also writes about film for Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts.

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Praise for this book

"Huge scope...invention, feeling and humor...with love as an abyss of motion, terror, ecstasy. The richest of Erickson's visions to date."

-- Joseph McElroy, The Believer

"Erickson and his latest novel are clearly sui generis. Our Ecstatic Days is an extravagant, outsized accomplishment...in which chaos almost -- but never quite -- wins, in which primal human connections keep us going in the face of catastrophic loss. A baroque, visionary novel rooted in fundamental truths."

-- Bill Sheehan, The Washington Post Book World

"Our Ecstatic Days may be a great one."

-- David Bowman, Bookforum

"There's no one in the world writing like Steve Erickson."

-- Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review