The Sea Came in at Midnight (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Steve Erickson
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1960’s through the 2010’s
- Setting: Tokyo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Brittany
- Principal Characters: Kristin, The Occupant, Angie “Saki” Kai, Nadine “Maxxi Maraschino” Sienkiewicz, Louise Pagel “Lulu Blu” Blumenthal, Billy Pagel, Carl
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Mythology or myths, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, New York City, Alienation, Poetry or poets, Paris, Spiritual life or spirituality, Legends, Gods or goddesses, Sea or seafaring life, Cults, San Francisco, Hollywood, Cities or towns, Tokyo, Fables
- Locales: New York, NY, Paris, France, Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, Tokyo, Japan, Brittany, France
In such earlier novels as Days Between Stations: A Novel (1985), Arc d’X (1993), and Amnesiascope: A Novel (1996), Steve Erickson presented his pessimistic vision of the future. The Sea Came in at Midnight again shows human society declining into a postmillennial dystopia, which the author emphasizes is a logical extrapolation given the course of history and especially the events of the twentieth century. The central character in The Sea Came in at Midnight is a seventeen-year-old girl, Kristin. Unhappy with her life in the small Northern California...
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