Norman Lock
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 3
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mid-19th-century Philadelphian surgical assistant Edward Fenzil falls under the sway of his mentor, a collector of medical curiosities, and the writer Edgar Allan Poe, both of whose powerful wills challenge his sense of identity as he struggles with his own malevolent doppelganger.
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 2
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A scrappy Brooklyn orphan-turned-assassin comes of age, befriends Walt Whitman, apprentices under William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer as railroad construction advances the nation's expansionist goals.
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 5
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"[Norman Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." NPR "Lock writes some of the most deceptively beautiful sentences in contemporary fiction. Beneath their clarity are layers of cultural and literary references, profound questions about loyalty, race, the possibility of social progress, and the nature of truth . . . to create something entirely newan American fable of ideas." Shelf Awareness "The Wreckage...