Kem Nunn

• Feb-2014
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From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author comes a suspenseful and mind-bending novel about Eldon Chance, a forensic neuropsychiatrist at the end of his rope. In a land of lost dreams, California has many fault lines, and in recent years...

• Jan-2005
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People come to Huntington Beach in search of the endless party, the ultimate high and the perfect wave. Ike Tucker came to look for his sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In a place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blondes, Ike...

• Aug-2004
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When Fahey, once a great surfer, now a reclusive ex-con, meets Magdalena, she is running from a pack of wild dogs along the ragged wasteland where California and Mexico meet the Pacific Ocean -- a spot once known to the men who rode its giant waves a...

• Feb-1997
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Heart Attacks is California's last secret spot -- the premier mysto surf haunt, the stuff of rumor and legend. The rumors say you must cross Indian land to get there. They tell of hostile locals and shark-infested waters where waves in excess of thir...

• Apr-1992
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Lost in a southern California barrio, Earl Dean has a hard time believing there is one living soul in this foul-smelling night who wants to be found by a salesman hawking vacuum cleaners. What awaits Earl in the faint flow of a distant porch light is...

• Apr-1987
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"[An] accomplished new novel that confirms the promise of Nunn's first book, Tapping the Source .... Nunn writes with a keen portentousness about the warped people in this wasteland, creating what might be described as a western gothic. His examinati...

• Mar-1984
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTKem Nunn's "surf noir" classic is a thrilling plunge into the seedy underbelly of a Southern California beach town -- the inspiration for the film Point Break.People go to Huntington Beach in search of the endless parties,...