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Our Ecstatic Days begins as the memoir of a young mother desperate to forget a single act, committed out of love and fear, that has changed forever the world around her. In the waning days of summer, a lake appears, almost overnight, in the middle of Los Angeles. In an instant of either maContinue
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bookotron published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010
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Our Ecstatic Days
A most odd and challenging romance of risk, dream, and women unfolds in this story about a mother and her son. As soon as I have said this about Steve Erickson’s new novel Our Ecstatic Days, I am in trouble. The huge scope of the book and the shiftin ... (read full critics)
believermag published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010
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Needs a careful reading. This is an apocalyptic style novel of the near future. It's hard to follow between various people in various time frames who could be different people in other time frames.
The writing is exquisite.The second half has separate literal narrative line that contin ... (continue)
Onthaxis said on May 19, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 336 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0743285107
- ISBN-13: 9780743285100
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Pub date: Jan 10, 2006
- Also available as: Hardcover
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| 9780743285100 | Paperback | $14.00 | $12.60 | bn.com |
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Onthaxis 
Our Ecstatic Days
Parenthood unleashes a sort of madness in the parent. Helplessly, like it or not, you realize that it cuts two ways. On one hand, it offers the possibility of boundless, literally eternal joy. But of course, it also offers the opportunity of bottomle ... (read full critics)