American Meteor - (American Novels) by Norman Lock (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>In the second American Novels series book, a scrappy Brooklyn orphan turned vengeful assassin narrates a visionary tale of the American West.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i><b>A scrappy Brooklyn orphan turned vengeful assassin narrates a visionary tale of the American West</i></b></p><p>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 railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, receives a medal from General Grant, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, goes to work for railroad mogul Thomas Durant, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer. When he comes face-to-face with Crazy Horse, his life will be spared but his dreams haunted for the rest of his days.</p><p>By turns elegiac and comic, <i>American Meteor</i> is a novel of adventure, ideas, and mourning: a unique vision of America's fabulous and murderous history.</p><p><b>Norman Lock</b> is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage and radio plays. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p/> <p/> <p/> <p/> <p/> <p/> <p/> <p/> <p/><p><b>Select<br>Praise for Norman Lock's The American Novels<br>Series</b></p><p></p><p>"Shimmers with glorious<br>language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." --<b>NPR</b></p><p>"Our national history and literature<br>are Norman Lock's playground in his dazzling series, The American Novels. . . .<br>[His] supple, elegantly plain-spoken prose captures the generosity of the<br>American spirit in addition to its moral failures, and his passionate<br>engagement with our literary heritage evinces pride in its unique character."<br>--<b><i>Washington Post</i></b></p><p>"Lock<br>writes some of the most deceptively beautiful sentences in contemporary<br>fiction. Beneath their clarity are layers of cultural and literary references, <br>profound questions about loyalty, race, the possibility of social progress, and<br>the nature of truth . . . to create something entirely new--an American fable of<br>ideas." --<b><i>Shelf Awareness</i></b></p><p>"[A]<br>consistently excellent series. . . . Lock has an impressive ear for the<br>musicality of language, and his characteristic lush prose brings vitality and<br>poetic authenticity to the dialogue." --<b><i>Booklist</i></b></p><p><b>On<br><i>The Boy in His Winter</i></b></p><p>"[Lock]<br>is one of the most interesting writers out there. This time, he re-imagines<br>Huck Finn's journeys, transporting the iconic character deep into America's<br>past--and future."<br>--<b><i>Reader's Digest</i></b></p><p><b>On<br><i>American Meteor</i></b></p><p>"[Walt Whitman]<br>hovers over [<i>American Meteor</i>], just as Mark Twain's spirit<br>pervaded <i>The Boy in His Winter</i>. . . . Like all Mr. Lock's<br>books, this is an ambitious work, where ideas crowd together on the page like<br>desperate men on a battlefield." --<b><i>Wall Street<br>Journal</i></b></p><p><b>On <i>The<br>Port-Wine Stain</i></b></p><p>"Lock's novel engages not merely with<br>[Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Dent Mütter] but with decadent fin de siècle art<br>and modernist literature that raised philosophical and moral questions about<br>the metaphysical relations among art, science and human consciousness. The<br>reader is just as spellbound by Lock's story as [his novel's narrator] is by<br>Poe's. . . . Echoes of Wilde's <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i><br>and Freud's theory of the uncanny abound in this mesmerizingly twisted, richly<br>layered homage to a pioneer of American Gothic fiction." --<b><i>New<br>York Times Book Review</i></b></p><p><b>On<br><i>A Fugitive in Walden Woods</i></b></p><p>"<i>A Fugitive in Walden Woods</i> manages<br>that special magic of making Thoreau's time in Walden Woods seem fresh and<br>surprising and necessary right now. . . . This is a patient and perceptive<br>novel, a pleasure to read even as it grapples with issues that affect the<br>United States to this day." --<b>Victor LaValle</b>, author of<br><i>The Ballad of Black<br>Tom</i> and <i>The Changeling</i></p><p><b>On <i>The Wreckage<br>of Eden</i></b></p><p>"The lively passages of Emily [Dickinson's]'s<br>letters are so evocative of her poetry that it becomes easy to see why Robert<br>finds her so captivating. The book also expands and deepens themes of moral<br>hypocrisy around racism and slavery. . . . Lyrically written but unafraid of<br>the ugliness of the time, Lock's thought-provoking series continues to<br>impress." --<b><i>Publishers<br>Weekly</i></b></p><p><b>On <i>Feast Day of<br>the Cannibals</i></b></p><p>"Lock does not merely<br>imitate 19th-century prose; he makes it his own, with verbal<br>flourishes worthy of [Herman] Melville." --<b><i>Gay & Lesbian<br>Review</i></b></p><p><b>On<br><i>American Follies</i></b></p><p>"<i>Ragtime</i><br>in a fever dream. . . . When you mix 19th-century racists, feminists, <br>misogynists, freaks, and a flim-flam man, the spectacle that results might bear<br>resemblance to the contemporary United States." --<b><i>Library<br>Journal</i> (starred review)</b></p><p><b>On<br><i>Tooth of the Covenant</i></b></p><p></p><p>"Splendid. . . .<br>Lock masters the interplay between nineteenth-century [Nathaniel] Hawthorne and<br>his fictional surrogate, Isaac, as he travels through Puritan New England. The<br>historical details are immersive and meticulous." --<b><i>Foreword<br>Reviews</i> (starred review)</b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Norman Lock</b> is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage and radio plays. He has won The Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award, <i>The Paris Review</i> Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, and has been longlisted twice for the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize. He has also received writing fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series.</p>
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