*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 madness or
Our Ecstatic Days
- Book ID
- 126251682
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Standards
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In the waning summer days, a lake appears almost overnight in the middle of Los Angeles. Out of fear and love, a young single mother commits a desperate act: convinced that the lake means to take her small son from her, she determines to stop it and becomes the lake's Dominatrix-Oracle, "the Queen of the Zed Night." Acclaimed by many critics as Steve Erickson's greatest novel, Our Ecstatic Days takes place on the forbidden landscape of a defiant heart.
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