Slow Fade (Picador Books) - Softcover

Wurlitzer, Rudolph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330285505 ISBN 13: 9780330285506

Publisher: Macmillan, 1985

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""The return of "Slow Fade" is a fine thing. It's Rudy Wurlitzer's greatest work of fiction . . . and one of the best American books there is." --Alex Cox, director, " Repo Man "and" Sid & Nancy

""If you splice Rudy Wurlitzer's "Slow Fade" to his other four novels, they become a beautiful quintet, never losing their miraculous beat." --Robert Downey, director, " Hugo Pool "and" Putney Swope

"""Slow Fade" may be the most traditional of Wurlitzer's novels, and the time-honored pleasures of the novel are here in abundance: a twisting and turning story about fathers and sons, power and poverty, violence and fate. Some may read it as a 'roman a clef' about certain notorious Hollywood players, but that seems rather secondary to me. Wurlitzer has fashioned a rare and wonderful thing--a deeply spiritual novel, without one whiff of incense or candle wax." --Scott Spencer, author, " Endless Love "and" Waking the Dead

"""Slow Fade" comes out of the space between real life and the movies and closes it up for good. A great book: beautiful, funny, and dangerous." --Michael Herr, screenwriter, " Full Metal Jacket

About the Author

Rudolph Wurlitzer is the screenwriter of "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid "and "Two-Lane Blacktop." He is also the author of the novels "Flats," " Nog," " Quake," " "and "The Drop Edge of Yonder," and the travel diary "Hard Travel to Sacred Places." He lives in Hudson, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330285505
• ISBN 13: 9780330285506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224