RUBICON BEACH. By. GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW. Here, Erickson (Days Between Stations, ) does a vague parroting of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, with the elusive girl, here Catherine (instead of Caddy), serving as an icon for human passion. KIRKUS REVIEW. Here, Erickson (Days. Of all of Erickson's novels Rubicon Beach is the timeless classic. In the disobedience of narrative structure he sculpts language and character into the most evocative series of images possible; he dares the ramparts of existential literature, makes Sartre look /5(15). Needless to say, the three stories and the various lives intersect. But Erickson doesn't go for easy plot twists. Rubicon Beach is eerily convoluted. The largely straightforward and distinct plots each take their own peculiar twists. The meetings of minds and men are unexpected. Each of the characters is lost.
Rubicon Beach: A Novel - Ebook written by Steve Erickson. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Rubicon Beach: A Novel. Booklist. "Erickson is brilliant, period. Here in Rubicon Beach is a musical prose of utter clarity that can weld the abstract and the concrete, the daily and the surreal, into a seamless whole. Here is a mind that can both conceive visions and follow them over the edge. Here, I mean, is a writer, whose words reach you where you live.". A prisoner with a haunted past is released into ravaged Los Angeles, where he pursues an elusive girl to the shores or Rubicon Beach and faces his lost destiny. In his second novel, Steve Erickson creates a decaying world filled with leftover passions and poetic vision that established him as one of the most original and evocative American writers.
Steve Erickson is the acclaimed author of several novels, including Arc d’X, Rubicon Beach, and Days Between Stations. Regarded as a central figure in the avant-pop movement, Erickson has been compared to J. G. Ballard and Don DeLillo, and praised by Thomas Pynchon, for his deeply imaginative fiction. Read "Rubicon Beach A Novel" by Steve Erickson available from Rakuten Kobo. A “brilliant” novel about an alternate America that has been split in two (San Francisco Chronicle). In a dystopian Los. Published only a year after Days Between Stations, Rubicon Beach is considered Erickson's breakout novel, even though it is currently out of print and has been for some time. It starts off as a sort of post-apocalyptic horror noir, then morphs into a South American adventure story cum fish-out-of-water Hollywood yarn, before finishing up as an alternate 20th century piece of Americana.
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