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A History of the Imagination
A Novel
Av Norman Lock
Häftad, 2004
272 kr
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A History of the Imagination is a postmodern tale of adventure that reshapes the parameters of time and space, thought and action. In a metaphorical Africa, replete with nostalgia (but no dimensions), anything can happen and usually does. The narrator defends his magical departures, saying his is a …
Love Among the Particles
Av Norman Lock
Häftad, 2013
242 kr
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"Topical, astonishing and provocative ...a masterful collection." --Shelf Awareness for Readers (starred review) "[Lock's stories] are gems, rich in imagination and language ...For all their convolutions of space and time, these stories are remarkably easy to follow and savor." --Kirkus Reviews …
Love Among the Particles
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2013
197 kr
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“Topical, astonishing and provocative . . . a masterful collection.” — Shelf Awareness for Readers (starred review) “[Lock’s stories] are gems, rich in imagination and language . . . For all their convolutions of space and time, these stories are remarkably easy to follow and savor.” — Kirkus …
Boy in His Winter
An American Novel
Av Norman Lock
Häftad, 2014
190 kr
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"Make[s] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone." --SCOTT SIMON, NPR Weekend Edition "Brilliant...The Boy in His Winter is a glorious meditation on justice, truth, loyalty, story, and the alchemical effects of love, a reminder of our capacity to be changed by the …
Boy in His Winter
An American Novel
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2014
268 kr
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Huck Finn’s mythic adventures—and childhood—abruptly end when he steps off his raft into Hurricane Katrina Huck Finn and Jim float on their raft across a continuum of shifting seasons, feasting on a limitless supply of fish and stolen provisions, propelled by the currents of the mighty Mississippi …
American Meteor
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2015
257 kr
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A scrappy Brooklyn orphan turned vengeful assassin narrates a visionary tale of the American West In this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny—the second stand-alone book in The American Novels series—Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the …
Shadowplay
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2014
104 kr
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In Java, a master of the shadow-puppet theater seeks to possess--by his art--a woman, who perishes as though by the contagion of his unnatural desire. SHADOWPLAY is a meditation on story-telling as an act of seizure, a parable of obsession and of the danger of confounding the real with its …
Grim Tales
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2015
106 kr
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“ Grim Tales is a mythological catalog of the peculiar, a string of strange, often murderous urban myths. It comes on fast and dirty, micro-moments on micro-moments, each wasting no time in lunging at the throat.” —Blake Butler PRAISE “This is book as turbulence disrupting the smooth sea, as …
The Port-Wine Stain
Av Norman Lock
Häftad, 2016
259 kr
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"Mesmerizingly twisted, richly layered." --New York Times Book Review "[Norman Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." --NPR In his third book of The American Novels series, Norman Lock recounts the story of a young Philadelphian, Edward Fenzil, who, …
Port-Wine Stain
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2016
221 kr
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A young surgical assistant faces his doppelgänger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a “lost” Poe story. In his third stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Norman Lock recounts the story of a young Philadelphian, Edward Fenzil, who, in the winter of 1844, falls under the …
Fugitive in Walden Woods
Av Norman Lock
Häftad, 2017
259 kr
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"A Fugitive in Walden Woods manages that special magic of making Thoreau's time in Walden Woods seem fresh and surprising and necessary right now. Norman Lock tells the story of Samuel Long, an escaped slave who encounters Thoreau, with insight and some welcome humor. This is a patient and …
Fugitive in Walden Woods
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2017
221 kr
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Henry David Thoreau’s principles are tested when a young man escapes from slavery into Walden Woods In Norman Lock’s fourth stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Samuel Long escapes slavery in Virginia, traveling the Underground Railroad to Walden Woods where he encounters Henry David …
Wreckage of Eden
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2018
227 kr
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A nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in God and country to his first love, poet Emily Dickinson When U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is fascinated by the brilliance of the strange girl immersed in her botany lessons. She will become his …
Feast Day of the Cannibals
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2019
224 kr
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A bankrupt merchant encounters Herman Melville and is pursued through the depths of Gilded Age Manhattan by a brutal antagonist In the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 1873–79, is hired as a New York City Custom House …
American Follies
Av Norman Lock
Häftad, 2020
259 kr
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A young woman joins Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Barnum’s circus to rescue her infant from the KKKIn the seventh stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Ellen Finch, former stenographer to Henry James, recalls her time as an assistant to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady …
American Follies
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2020
221 kr
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A young woman joins Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Barnum’s circus to rescue her infant from the KKK In the seventh stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Ellen Finch, former stenographer to Henry James, recalls her time as an assistant to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady …
Tooth of the Covenant
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2021
257 kr
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Nathaniel Hawthorne pens a new tale to exact revenge on his ancestor, a notorious judge of the Salem witch trials Best known for his novel The Scarlet Letter , Nathaniel Hawthorne was burdened by familial shame, which began with his great-great-grandfather John Hathorne, the infamously unrepentant …
Voices in the Dead House
Av Norman Lock
Häftad, 2022
184 kr
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Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualtiesAfter the Union Army’s defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to nurse the sick, wounded, and dying. Whitman was a man of many contradictions: …
Voices in the Dead House
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2022
259 kr
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Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualties After the Union Army’s defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to nurse the sick, wounded, and dying. Whitman was a man of many contradictions: …
Ice Harp
Av Norman Lock
Häftad, 2023
181 kr
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Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier’s unjust arrestIn 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia and grief, Ralph Waldo Emerson is scarcely recognizable as America’s foremost essayist and orator. …
Ice Harp
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2023
272 kr
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Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier’s unjust arrest In 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia and grief, Ralph Waldo Emerson is scarcely recognizable as America’s foremost essayist and …
Caricaturist
Av Norman Lock
Häftad, 2024
184 kr
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A young artist meets Stephen Crane as America’s hunger for empire draws them both into warOliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, enrages his banker father and earns the contempt of Philadelphia’s foremost realist …
Caricaturist
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2024
274 kr
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A young artist meets Stephen Crane as America’s hunger for empire draws them both into war Oliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, enrages his banker father and earns the contempt of Philadelphia’s foremost realist …
Eden's Clock
Av Norman Lock
Häftad, 2025
189 kr
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NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “WHAT TO READ NEXT”A disabled Civil War veteran makes an epic, westward journey toward a fateful encounter with author Jack London, only hours before the 1906 San Francisco earthquakeRendered mute at the Battle of Gettysburg, Frederick Heigold returns to Dobbs Ferry, New …
Eden's Clock
Av Norman Lock
E-bok, 2025
268 kr
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A disabled Civil War veteran makes an epic, westward journey toward a fateful encounter with author Jack London, only hours before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake Rendered mute at the Battle of Gettysburg, Frederick Heigold returns to Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he marries a resolute suffragist …
Old Man and the Heath
A Novel and Stories
Av Norman Lock
Häftad, 2027
279 kr
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Shakespeare reimagined in a novel of King Lear, resurrected from the heath to bear witness at time’s end, and six stories that present the Bard’s bit characters anewNorman Lock recasts King Lear as a survivor of Shakespeare’s tragic play, condemned to live as an old man forever on the heath, where …
Wreckage of Eden
Av Norman Lock
Häftad, 2018
181 kr
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A nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in God and country to his first love, poet Emily DickinsonWhen U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is fascinated by the brilliance of the strange girl immersed in her botany lessons. She will become his …
