Bibliographical Description
87.09.W038: Erickson – Rubicon Beach
RUBICON | BEACH | STEVE | ERICKSON | VINTAGE | CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS | A DIVISION OF | RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK [over decorative panel 107 x 102 mm]
152 leaves, pp. 1–8 9-90 91–92 93-224 225–226 227-300 [4]
First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, September 1987
Contents: 1 author photo with blurbs, 2 ‘BOOKS BY STEVE ERICKSON’, 3 title, 4 imprint, 5 epigraph, 6 blank, 7-300 Rubicon Beach: 7-90 ‘ONE [over decorative panel 107 x 102 mm]’, 91-224 ‘TWO [over decorative panel 107 x 102 mm]’, 225-300 ‘THREE [over decorative panel 107 x 102 mm]’; χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Alison Cobb.
Copyright: © 1986. ISBN: 0-394-75513-8. Price: $6.95. Rubicon Beach was first published by Poseidon Press, A Division of Simon and Schuster, 1986.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) This book is…a warning to those who lack the courage to cross the Rubicon of their imaginations. – Paul Auster, The New York Times Book Review
- Erickson’s stuff is exquisite: echoing like poetry….He has an absolute vision, which moves fearlessly through time and across geographic boundaries, of what it means to be born in America….Rubicon Beach is a diamond. – Philadelphia Inquirer
- Stark, brilliant…a world marked by familiar coordinates but always in fantastic light, as if seen for the very first time. Somewhere in Rubicon Beach, in Los Angeles, in America…are our unadulterated dreams—if we could only stop looking long enough to find them. – San Francisco Chronicle
- The best novel I’ve read this year. – Greil Marcus, Village Voice
- Steve Erickson has that rare and luminous gift for reporting back the nocturnal side of reality. – Thomas Pynchon
- Here, in Rubicon Beach, is a musical prose of utter clarity that can weld the abstract and the concrete, the daily an 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—a man whose words reach for you where you live and whose meanings look back at you from your mirror whether you like it or not. – Michael Ventura, L.A. Weekly
- Genuine stylishness…a nightmare novel. – USA Today