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Empty the Sun

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Description

"Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles..." Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race with death to bury the murdered past in Joseph Mattson's urgent, beautifully reckless debut novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption, culminating in a shotgun fight with God. Includes an open-road, open-whiskey soundtrack by enigmatic and stunning Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance.

Product Details

PublisherRare Bird Books, a Barnacle Book
Publish DateSeptember 07, 2010
Pages166
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconMultiple-component retail product
EAN/UPC9780982505625
Dimensions8.0 X 5.7 X 0.6 inches | 0.6 pounds

About the Author

JOSEPH MATTSON is the author of Eat Hell (Narrow Books), and his writing has appeared in Ambit, Pearl, Slipstream, Two Letters, and many more. An epical rambler--miles under him include working as a farmer, dishwasher, cook, getaway driver, healthcare worker for the clinically mentally insane, and more--his home base is Los Angeles.

Reviews


Joseph Mattson writes like a guitar player with nineteen fingerseverywhere at once, stinging, dark, and beautiful.
Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight and Pain Killers
As Rolling Stone once said about Public Enemy, Empty the Sun doesn t just break new groundit s become the new ground to break.
Dan Collins, LA Record"

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