Empty the Sun
Published on 7. September 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
166 pages
978-0-9825056-2-5 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Joseph Mattson writes like a guitar player with nineteen fingers--everywhere 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 ground--it's become the new ground to break." -- Dan Collins, LA RecordMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Rare Bird Books
Product notice
Audio CD
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9825056-2-5 (9780982505625)
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Person
Joseph Mattson is the author of Eat Hell (Narrow Books), and his writing has appeared in Ambit, Pearl, Slipstream, Two Letters, and more. An epical rambler--miles under him include work as a farmer, dishwasher, getaway driver, healthcare worker for the clinically mentally insane, and more--his home base is Los Angeles. Six Organs of Admittance tours multiple continents and has released over a dozen albums, including Dark Noontide (Holy Mountain), School of the Flower (Drag City), Shelter from the Ash (Drag City), and Luminous Night (Drag City), in addition to contributing the guns to even dozens more.