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The Port-Wine Stain (The American Novels)
The PortWine Stain - The American Novels Author:Norman Lock “[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, in the winter of 1844, falls under the sway of two luminaries of the nineteenth-century grotesque imagination: Thomas D... more »ent Mütter, a surgeon and collector of medical “curiosities,? and Edgar Allan Poe. As Fenzil struggles against the powerful wills that would usurp his identity, including that of his own malevolent doppelgänger, he loses his mind and his story to another.
Norman Lock is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. His recent works of fiction include the short story collection Love Among the Particles, a Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year, and three books in The American Novels series: The Boy in His Winter, a re-envisioning of Mark Twain?s classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that Scott Simon of NPR?s Weekend Edition hailed for “make[ing] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone;? American Meteor, an homage to Walt Whitman and William Henry Jackson named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and The Port-Wine Stain, an homage to Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Dent Mütter (forthcoming in 2016). Lock lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.« less