{"product_id":"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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019279057136,"sku":"9780982015124","price":13.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982015124_p0.jpg?v=1769914262","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982015124","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}