{"product_id":"nog-rudolph-wurlitzer-9780982015124","title":"Nog","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNog\u003c\/i\u003e is to literature what Dylan is to lyrics.\"--Jack Newfield, \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A new kind of American travelogue.\"--David Ulin, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Somewhere between Psychedelic Superman and Samuel Beckett.\"--\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published by Random House in 1969, \u003ci\u003eNog\u003c\/i\u003e became a universally revered cult novel and a symbol of the countercultural movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Rudolph Wurlitzer's signature hypnotic and haunting voice, \u003ci\u003eNog\u003c\/i\u003e tells the tale of a man adrift in the American West, armed with nothing more than his own three pencil-thin memories and an octopus in a bathysphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition of \u003ci\u003eNog\u003c\/i\u003e features a new introduction from noted critic and writer Erik Davis (\u003ci\u003eTechGnosis\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYesterday afternoon a girl walked by the window and stopped for sea shells. I was wrenched out of two months of calm. Nothing more than that, certainly, nothing ecstatic or even interesting, but very silent and even, as those periods have become for me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRudolph Wurlitzer\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Drop Edge of Yonder\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuake\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFlats\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlow Fade\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the nonfiction memoir \u003ci\u003eHard Travel to Sacred Places\u003c\/i\u003e. He wrote the screenplays for such classic films as \u003ci\u003ePat Garrett and Billy the Kid\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwo Lane Blacktop\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWalker\u003c\/i\u003e, among others, and co-directed the film \u003ci\u003eCandy Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e with Robert Frank.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rudolph Wurlitzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0982015127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780982015124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Dollar Radio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Rudolph Wurlitzer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443767587071,"sku":"9780982015124","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ca0fd83-eff4-4785-be28-d3f4bc14635d.jpg?v=1777207711","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nog-rudolph-wurlitzer-9780982015124","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}