DOUG DORST, Author of SURF GURU and ALIVE IN NECROPOLIS
10/02/2010 2:00 pm
10/02/2010 2:30 pm
With the publication of his debut novel, Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst was celebrated as one of the most original literary voices of his generation -- likened to T.C. Boyle and Denis Johnson, and called a northern California Haruki Murakami. Now, in his collection of short stories, The Surf Guru, his full talent is on display.
In these stories, an old surfing-champion-turned-surfwear- entrepreneur sits on his ocean-front balcony watching a new generation of surfers come of age on the waves, all but one of whom wear wet suits emblazoned with the Surf Guru's name. An acid-tongued, pioneering botanist who has been exiled from the academy composes a series of scurrilous (and hilarious) biographical sketches of his colleagues and rivals, inadvertently telling his own story. A pair of twenty-first- century drifters course through a series of unusual adventures in their dilapidated car, chased west out of one town and into the next, dreaming of hitting the Pacific.
Doug Dorst will be in the store on October 2nd to perform an unusual kind of reading-- over the our store intercom. So, come by to browse and listen, and to meet him afterwards (he will be physically present, really) and pick up a signed copy of The Surf Guru.
Location:
- Street:
- Green Apple Books
- Additional:
- 506 Clement St
- City:
- San Francisco ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 94118-2324
- Country:
- United States
