The Port-wine StainThe Port-wine Stain
With An Unfinished Tale by Edgar A. Poe
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Current format, Unknown, 2016, First edition., Available. Offered in 0 more formats"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, in the winter of 1844, falls under the sway of two luminaries of the nineteenth-century grotesque imagination: Thomas Dent MUtter, 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 doppelgAnger, 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 reenvisioning 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 Firecracker Award finalist and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and The Port-Wine Stain, an homage to Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Dent MUtter. Lock lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.
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