Our Ecstatic Days (SIGNED)

Steve Erickson (SIGNED)

ISBN 10: 074326472X / ISBN 13: 9780743264723

Published by Simon & Schuster, 2005

About this Item

SIGNED by author on title page and inscribed to Chris. 1st Printing of 1st Edition. Near Fine. Unclipped dust jacket, protected by mylar cover, is clean and bright with no rips or creases. Black boards with silver stamped titles are clean and sturdy. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked with minor age toning. Quick, secure shipping with free delivery confirmation from Los Angeles bookstore. Photos available upon request. International shipping may be extra due to weight.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Our Ecstatic Days (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074326472X
• ISBN 13: 9780743264723
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Overcome by a fear that a lake that has miraculously appeared in Los Angeles is out to take her son from her, a single mother plunges into its depths and emerges as a powerful dominatrix and seer, while thousands of miles away, another woman with a bizarre connection to the first encounters a mysterious figure who bears a dark message. By the author of Days Between Stations. 15,000 first printing.

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Booklist Review

Who but Erickson would take two characters, Louise Blumenthal and Kristin, from his last novel, The Sea Came in at Midnight (1999), to make them a single character, then split them apart again? Erickson s stock in trade is duality, surrealism, and lyrical language, and so it is in this tale that loops back and forth through the twentieth century. Back from Tokyo, Kristin Blumenthal gives birth to a beautiful baby boy, Kirk (for Kierkegaard, whose twin sister, Bronte, is still undelivered) just as a lake starts rising from the center of L.A. to flood the city. But with the joy of the child comes the fear of losing him, the greatest loss known to humanity, and Kristin does lose her young son, only to discover another dual world years later. There are multiple connections through the years between major characters. Unusual textual format, broken chronology, and alternate realities are Erickson trademarks, but what gives this unusual humanity is the Hotel of the Thirteen Losses showing, in its last room, the unendurable loss. Michele Leber