Rubicon Beach by Steve Erickson - Paperback Fiction

Haunted by his past, a political prisoner under police surveillance wanders a ravaged, flooded Los Angeles that floats free of time, where strange music bubbles up through the cracks in the asphalt.  There he sights a mysterious young woman in the act of murder, and his pursuit of her leads him deep into a world of betrayed dreams, decayed meaning, and abandoned passions--beyond America and past the Twentieth Century, to the far shores of Rubicon Beach.  Infused with a highly charged poetry, this is the novel that established Steve Erickson as one of the most original and visionary American writers of his generation.