The Drop Edge of Yonder
"[A] funny, inquisitive novel [that] asks readers to re-examine their ideas of the Western frontier and personal freedom." — Jeffrey Trachtenberg,
"May be the most hallucinogenic western you'll ever catch in the movie house of your mind's eye." — Erik Davis,
"A picaresque American … in the tradition of Thomas Pynchon, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and Terry Southern." — David Ulin,
"Should be as well known as anything by Cormac McCarthy, Steve Erickson, or Jim Harrison." — Paul DiFilippo,
“Rudolph Wurlitzer takes no prisoners. An uncompromising, wild, and woolly tale.”—Sam Shepard
“Sam Beckett with a six-gun and a sack of rattlesnakes.”—Gary Indiana
"Where has Rudy Wurlitzer been for the last fifteen years? The mental traveler who gave us and the screenplay takes another vision quest, this time into the Old American West. His mapping of mythic and sacred landscapes and his ability to distinguish between different tribal world-views makes this a truly revealing conversation." — KCRW's
In his fifth novel, Rudolph Wurlitzer has written a classic tale of the Western frontier and created one of his most memorable characters in Zebulon, a mountain man whose view of life has been challenged by a curse from a mysterious Native American woman whose lover he inadvertently murdered.