American Novels Series by Norman Lock

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  • The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel (American Novels #1)
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    The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel (American Novels #1)

    Norman Lock

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2014

    Launched into existence by Mark Twain, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history. As time unfurls on the river’s banks, they witness decisive battles of the Civil War, the betrayal of Reconstruction’s promises to the freed slaves, the crushing of Native American nations, and the electrification of a continent... more

  • The Port-Wine Stain (American Novels #3)
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    The Port-Wine Stain (American Novels #3)

    Norman Lock

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2016

    "[Norman Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." --NPRIn 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 sway of two luminaries of the nineteenth-century grotesque imagination: Thomas Dent M�tter, a surgeon and collector of medical "curiosities," and Edgar Allan Poe... more

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