Quake

Rudolph Wurlitzer

Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, New York, 1972

About this Item

First Edition. Bound in original quarter black cloth over grey boards with vibrant metallic red spine lettering. Dust jacket unclipped, with light surface scuffing to the dark panels and minor rubbing at the spine ends. Internal text block crisp, immaculate, and tightly bound. A beautiful first edition copy of Rudolph Wurlitzer's third novel, a hallucinatory and harrowing journey through a collapsed Los Angeles. Following a devastating earthquake, the narrative traces an nameless traveler navigating a chaotic, dystopian wasteland of motels, apocalyptic cults, and uninhibited human breakdown. Wurlitzer's sparse, cinematic prose transforms a classic disaster trope into a biting, countercultural critique of American sanity and social fragility.

Seller Inventory # 765

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quake
• Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 1972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Fiction