The Drop Edge of Yonder

that] beautifully captures the glimmering maya of a gold-and-gun-and-sex-crazed frontier." —The Brooklyn Rail  "When Rudy Wurlitzer became a novelist and screenwriter during the 1970s, genre deconstruction was all the rage. The Drop Edge of Yonder, based on an unproduced screenplay from the time, is a psychedelic, fever-dream Western. When fur trapper Zebulon accidently murders a woman, she curses him, declaring, “From now on you will drift between worlds not knowing if you’re dead or alive, or if the unseen worlds exist or if you’re dreaming...” Readers are all the better for his misfortune. Wurlitzer’s prose is a gorgeous, blunt instrument, like riding a bucking bronco on LSD, like if Dispatches were written by Davy Crockett." —Pat B., Politics and Prose Bookstore "Simply the most wonderful book I have read all year." —Largehearted Boy "Zebulon sinks, floats, sees visions, understands his status, and the reader is left with few alternatives but to stay on the ride until the end. Wurlitzer plays with the psychedelic elements of the genre while also dipping into the comfort of earthly delights so prevalent in stories of Western conquerors." —Christopher John Stephens, PopMatters (Read the full book review) "Wurlitzer opens up his cold-blooded prose veins with the blade of the Western genre, and something sinister and mystically unsettling gushes out." —Baltimore City Paper Author Rudolph Wurlitzer is the author of the novels Nog, Flats, Quake, and Slow Fade, and a non-fiction book, Hard Travel to Sacred Places. He has written numerous screenplays, including Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Two Lane Blacktop, and Walker. Wurlitzer wrote the librettos to two Philip Glass operas, In the Penal Colony and The Perfect American, and co-directed the film Candy Mountain with Robert Frank. Sneak Peek Enjoy a sneak peek of select pages from The Drop Edge of Yonder! (Use the "full screen" option at bottom right to enlarge the pages): Info LIST PRICE: $15.99 PAGES: 252 PRINT ISBN: 9781937512613 DIGITAL ISBN: 978-1-937512-62-0 RELEASE DATE: 3/14/2017 AUDIO BOOK: Audible.com offers the audio version of The Drop Edge of Yonder FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Christian Bourgois Editeur (French) version of The Drop Edge of Yonder (Zebulon) Residenz Verlag (German) version of The Drop Edge of Yonder (Zebulon) Tropo Editores (Spanish) version of The Drop Edge of Yonder This edition printed in Canada by Marquis, with the following environmental statement: *Inside printed on Enviro 100% post-consumer EcoLogo certified paper, processed chlorine free and manufactured using biogas energy. *FSC certified paper (inside and cover). Save