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To keep his religious draft deferment, Obadiah Wheeler agrees to form a congregation in the Mojave Desert with the help of a missionary named Harlan Low
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"[An] accomplished new novel that confirms the promise of Nunn's first book, Tapping the Source .... Nunn writes with a keen portentousness about the warped people in this wasteland, creating what might be described as a western gothic. His examination of cultish thought is respectful, intriguing, and funny, in a narrative that never loses dramatic momentum."--Publishers Weekly
Lay preacher Obadiah Wheeler is responsible for conducting a group of missionaries into "unassigned territory," a stretch of Nevada wilderness open to evangelistic efforts. Obadiah's faith is shaky at best and no match for the tempting charms of the co-proprietor of a desert museum, raven-haired beauty Delandra Hummer. Together the two set off into the vast emptiness of the Mojave in search of a buyer for the museum's prize exhibit, an extraterrestrial relic. Their hilarious road trip--punctuated by encounters with UFO cults, wild rednecks, and hippie burnouts--throbs with violence and madness as well as the possibility of spiritual enlightenment. This "desert noir" by National Book Award nominee Kem Nunn was recognized as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; the author has also written for and produced numerous TV projects, among them John from Cincinnati, Deadwood, and Sons of Anarchy.
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Surfer Kem Nunn has written five novels, including Tapping the Source, his seminal "surf-noir" book, a National Book Award finalist and the inspiration for the movie Point Break. In addition to writing for the television series Sons of Anarchy, Nunn has collaborated with producer David Milch on HBO's Deadwood and John from Cincinnati.
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- PublisherBantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0385295367
- ISBN 13 9780385295369
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages305
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. New York: Delacorte, (1987. ) 1987 First printing.Near Fine ina good dust jacket with a triangular piece torn out from the front edge and general wear. Still presentable. No marks or folds. Author"s second novel, described as a "stunning evocation of the Mojave Desert and of the unusual people who choose to live in those terrible miles of nothing"-a coming of age story of a young fundamentalist who is losing his religion, and a novel which includes both the suspense that caused critics to compare Nunn to Chandler and Hammett and a poetic evocation of the people who confront the arid spaces of the American Southwest. Nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for the best novel of 1987 Nunn is a fantastic stylist and humorist. He effortlessly creates the ramshackle edges of the California desert in all their seedy glory, and populates them with characters who are as strikingly realistic as they are laugh-out-loud hilarious. What began as a scam ended up as an obsession. Bug House, Harlan, Delandra and Obadiah hopscotch across a quintessential American landscape of dreamers, converts, con-men and cops. Here's a novel in which the urine-soaked bathrooms of lonely gas stations are spray painted with graffiti warning of the coming of Cthulhu. Seller Inventory # 000839
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