{"product_id":"artists-choice-17-bundle-fust-rudolph-wurlitzer","title":"ARTISTS CHOICE #17 BUNDLE - Fust \u0026 Rudolph Wurlitzer","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e*THIS IS THE BUNDLE FOR OUR ARTISTS CHOICE BOOK CLUB #17*\u003cbr\u003eLP** $20 \/ Book $16 - Bundle $30 (save $6!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFust has chosen the book 'Slow Fade' by Rudolph Wurlitzer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eto pair with their new LP 'Big Ugly'.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Fust: \"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e “I read and reread and reread Rudy Wurlitzer’s 1984 novel \u003c\/span\u003eSlow Fade \u003cspan\u003eover the last few years. Wurlitzer, son of the jukebox king, writes about the impossibility of family in the late twentieth century. It’s about a lost daughter in India, a son who goes to find her at the expense of his marriage, and a famous film director father (a Sam Peckinpah type) so unable to engage his family on this level that he hires his son to write a screenplay to be his last film about the son’s experience searching for her. It’s angry and mystical and ugly. The passages in India are sublime and so burned-out. The passages in the southwest are hateful, with mercenary and ex-roadie A.D. trying to make money and turn this whole family drama into a money maker. It's a western of sorts, kind of like \u003c\/span\u003eWalker\u003cspan\u003e, the 1987 film Wurlitzer made with Alex Cox. This was supposed to be a film too: a film that didn’t get made about a film that couldn’t be made. But in this story, no great final work can undo the damages done; the attempt at making it just accrues more. \u003c\/span\u003eBig Ugly \u003cspan\u003easpires to the regional, American flair here, and to the raucous cast of characters here that seem to interrupt and also move the whole thing along.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artists Choice","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42219406753881,"sku":"","price":29.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/1485\/6793\/files\/phonto_98503ad8-8082-48d3-954f-71dedbfd2a9c.jpg?v=1744475932","url":"https:\/\/nicepriceboo.com\/products\/artists-choice-17-bundle-fust-rudolph-wurlitzer","provider":"Nice Price Books \u0026 Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}