{"product_id":"flats-quake-isbn-9780982015148","title":"Flats \/ Quake","description":"Two counter-cultural classics available in one back-to-back edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlats\u003c\/i\u003e is a post-apocalyptic exploration of the human self. Submerged amidst a cast of faceless characters named after ruined American cities who compete over a shrinking fringe of space, \u003ci\u003eFlats\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern masterpiece of the counterculture. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuake\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the unraveling of society after an earthquake strikes ’60s Los Angeles. By painting a bleak picture of what people are capable of doing to one another in extreme circumstances, \u003ci\u003eQuake\u003c\/i\u003e is nihilistic and haunting, as well as uncomfortably foreboding. And more relevant than ever.\"Each book is short, but dense and trippy. If you want to know what it felt like to be a reader in the late '60s and early '70s, when so many new experimental works were put out by mainstream publishers, these books are great places to start. \u003ci\u003eNog\u003c\/i\u003e even had a blurb from Thomas Pynchon (\"the novel of bullshit is dead!\"), \u003ci\u003eFlats\u003c\/i\u003e wore its Samuel Beckett influence proudly on its sleeve, \u003ci\u003eQuake\u003c\/i\u003e took us through a slo mo pomo earthquake in L.A. Together they provide a tour of the dissolution of identity that was daily life in the late sixties.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Silverblatt, \u003ci\u003eKCRW's Bookworm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reading Rudolph Wurlitzer's novels is like watching a road movie backward. In his 1969 underground classic, \u003ci\u003eNog\u003c\/i\u003e, the narrator drifts across an amorphous terrain on which his shifting identity molds itself like soft clay. \u003ci\u003eFlats\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eQuake\u003c\/i\u003e mine much the same territory, a post-cataclysmic landscape in which heroic storytelling has been blown to bits. \u003ci\u003eQuake\u003c\/i\u003e reads like a mash-up of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/i\u003e. For the first time in more than three decades, it's possible to investigate the interplay between Wurlitzer's novels and his screenplays, the way his radical experiments in one informed his canny deconstruction of the other.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Push aside Brautigan and Ginsberg and make room in the curriculum for Wurlitzer as an overlooked and undervalued voice of the counterculture of the '60s and '70s, wedged comfortably between the collected works of Willam S. Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rodger Jacobs, \u003ci\u003ePopMatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The reader, the writer, and the denizens of [\u003ci\u003eFlats\u003c\/i\u003e] all get taken for a ride here, then are set down, slightly more cracked than they were before. [\u003ci\u003eQuake\u003c\/i\u003e] is Wurlitzer at his most Pynchonian. The frontier—alluded to in \u003ci\u003eFlats\u003c\/i\u003e, deconstructed in Wurlitzer's 1973 screenplay for \u003ci\u003ePat Garrett and Billy the Kid\u003c\/i\u003e, and played for laughs in last year's \u003ci\u003eDrop Edge of Yonder\u003c\/i\u003e—is again the subject [in \u003ci\u003eQuake\u003c\/i\u003e], posited this time as the place where humans turn back into whatever they turn back into when the marijuana and Social Security run out.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRudolph Wurlitzer\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eNog\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Drop Edge of Yonder\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlow Fade\u003c\/i\u003e, and a non-fiction book, \u003ci\u003eHard Travel to Sacred Places\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written numerous screenplays, including \u003ci\u003ePat Garrett and Billy the Kid\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwo Lane Blacktop\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWalker\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233172238565,"sku":"NP9780982015148","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780982015148.jpg?v=1767727445","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/flats-quake-isbn-9780982015148","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}