Voices in the Dead House by Norman Lock (English) Paperback Book

Description: Voices in the Dead House by Norman Lock In the ninth American Novels series book, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualties. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualtiesAfter the Union Armys defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to nurse the sick, wounded, and dying. Whitman was a man of many contradictions: egocentric yet compassionate, impatient with religiosity yet moved by the spiritual in all humankind, bigoted yet soon to become known as the great poet of democracy. Alcott was an intense, intellectual, independent woman, an abolitionist and suffragist, who was compelled by financial circumstance to publish saccharine magazine stories yet would go on to write the enduring and beloved Little Women. As Lock captures the musicality of their unique voices and their encounters with luminaries ranging from Lincoln to battlefield photographer Mathew Brady to reformer Dorothea Dix, he deftly renders the wars impact on their personal and artistic development.Inspired by Whitmans poem "The Wound-Dresser" and Alcotts Hospital Sketches, the ninth stand-alone book in The American Novels series is a masterful dual portrait of two iconic authors who took different paths toward chronicling a country beset by prejudice and at war with itself. Author Biography Norman Lock 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, The Paris Review 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. Review Praise for Voices in the Dead HouseBig Other Book Award FinalistForeword Reviews "Book of the Day" selectionLibrary Journal "Historical Fiction Titles To Share with Readers" selectionKirkus Reviews "New Novels With a Literary Pedigree" selectionThe Millions "Most Anticipated Books" selection"This is fiction of a high caliber. . . . Voices in the Dead House is on the cutting edge of history, providing us with a way to grapple with our evolving sense of the past, as we wonder what is next." —New York Sun"A unique look at the Civil War. . . . Through his characters struggles, Lock ably portrays the concerns of that day—prejudice, the strength of the Union, and Americas position in the world—which still exist in this one." —Washington Independent Review of Books"Gripping. . . . Distinctive. . . . A haunting novel that offers candid portraits of literary legends." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"A stunning historical novel that brings history and literature together to share a singular perspective on the Civil War." —Foreword Reviews"A twin tale of two literary luminaries. . . . Locks deep knowledge of the time period is evident throughout, his research impeccable, his prose iridescent." —Booklist"Immersive. . . . Locks uncanny gift for reproducing the literary voices of his narrators goes beyond mere pastiche. This insightful double portrait brings both Whitman and Alcott into sharp focus." —Publishers Weekly"Lock captures the strong personalities of Whitman and Alcott without glossing over their flaws in this fascinating snapshot of history." —Library Journal"Locks lyrical prose encompasses themes ranging from American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny to racism." —Historical Novels Review"A simply riveting read by Norman Lock—an author with a genuine flair for originality and the kind of narrative storytelling style that fully engages the reader from first page to last." —Midwest Book ReviewSelect Praise for Norman Locks The American Novels Series"Norman Lock has created a memorable portrait gallery of American subjects, in a succession of audaciously imagined, wonderfully original, and beautifully written novels unlike anything in our literature." —Joyce Carol Oates"Shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." —NPR"Our national history and literature are Norman Locks playground in his dazzling series, The American Novels. . . . [His] supple, elegantly plain-spoken prose captures the generosity of the American spirit in addition to its moral failures, and his passionate engagement with our literary heritage evinces pride in its unique character." —Washington Post"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 new—an American fable of ideas." —Shelf Awareness"[A] consistently excellent series. . . . Lock has an impressive ear for the musicality of language, and his characteristic lush prose brings vitality and poetic authenticity to the dialogue." —BooklistOn The Boy in His Winter"[Lock] is one of the most interesting writers out there. This time, he re-imagines Huck Finns journeys, transporting the iconic character deep into Americas past—and future." —Readers DigestOn American Meteor"[Walt Whitman] hovers over [American Meteor], just as Mark Twains spirit pervaded The Boy in His Winter. . . . Like all Mr. Locks books, this is an ambitious work, where ideas crowd together on the page like desperate men on a battlefield." —Wall Street JournalOn The Port-Wine Stain"Locks novel engages not merely with [Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Dent MÜtter] but with decadent fin de siècle art and modernist literature that raised philosophical and moral questions about the metaphysical relations among art, science and human consciousness. The reader is just as spellbound by Locks story as [his novels narrator] is by Poes. . . . Echoes of Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray and Freuds theory of the uncanny abound in this mesmerizingly twisted, richly layered homage to a pioneer of American Gothic fiction." —New York Times Book ReviewOn A Fugitive in Walden Woods"A Fugitive in Walden Woods manages that special magic of making Thoreaus time in Walden Woods seem fresh and surprising and necessary right now. . . . This is a patient and perceptive novel, a pleasure to read even as it grapples with issues that affect the United States to this day." —Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom and The ChangelingOn The Wreckage of Eden"The lively passages of Emily [Dickinsons]s letters are so evocative of her poetry that it becomes easy to see why Robert finds her so captivating. The book also expands and deepens themes of moral hypocrisy around racism and slavery. . . . Lyrically written but unafraid of the ugliness of the time, Locks thought-provoking series continues to impress." —Publishers WeeklyOn Feast Day of the Cannibals"Lock does not merely imitate 19th-century prose; he makes it his own, with verbal flourishes worthy of [Herman] Melville." —Gay & Lesbian ReviewOn American Follies"Ragtime in a fever dream. . . . When you mix 19th-century racists, feminists, misogynists, freaks, and a flim-flam man, the spectacle that results might bear resemblance to the contemporary United States." —Library Journal (starred review)On Tooth of the Covenant"Splendid. . . . Lock masters the interplay between nineteenth-century [Nathaniel] Hawthorne and his fictional surrogate, Isaac, as he travels through Puritan New England. The historical details are immersive and meticulous." —Foreword Reviews (starred review)On The Ice Harp"In The Ice Harp, Norman Lock deftly takes us into the polyphonic swirl of Emersons mind at the end of his life, inviting us to meet the man anew even as the philosopher fights to stop forgetting himself. Who will I be when the words are gone, the great thinker wonders, and how will I know what is right? I gladly asked myself these same impossible questions on every page of this remarkably empathetic and deeply moral novel." —Matt Bell, author of Appleseed and Refuse to Be Done Promotional Co-op availableSignificant bound galley mailing to media and booksellers, including bound galley promotional offer through the American Booksellers Associations "Advance Access" program. Additional digital review copy distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through EdelweissNational print, public radio, and online media campaignsAuthor statement available in press materialBook club outreach. NOTE: Reading group guides are available for many American Novels series titles at Simultaneous eBook publication and promotionPostcards availableEarly outreach and giveaways through LibraryThingPromotion through BLPs social media channels and website: Promotion through the authors website: Editor: Erika GoldmanCover designer: Alban FischerMarketing and publicity efforts supported by Molly Mikolowski of A Literary Light Long Description Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualties After the Union Armys defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to nurse the sick, wounded, and dying. Whitman was a man of many contradictions: egocentric yet compassionate, impatient with religiosity yet moved by the spiritual in all humankind, bigoted yet soon to become known as the great poet of democracy. Alcott was an intense, intellectual, independent woman, an abolitionist and suffragist, who was compelled by financial circumstance to publish saccharine magazine stories yet would go on to write the enduring and beloved Little Women . As Lock captures the musicality of their unique voices and their encounters with luminaries ranging from Lincoln to battlefield photographer Mathew Brady to reformer Dorothea Dix, he deftly renders the wars impact on their personal and artistic development. Inspired by Whitmans poem "The Wound-Dresser" and Alcotts Hospital Sketches , the ninth stand-alone book in The American Novels series is a masterful dual portrait of two iconic authors who took different paths toward chronicling a country beset by prejudice and at war with itself. Review Quote Select Praise for Norman Locks The American Novels Series "Shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." -- NPR "Our national history and literature are Norman Locks playground in his dazzling series, The American Novels. . . . [His] supple, elegantly plain-spoken prose captures the generosity of the American spirit in addition to its moral failures, and his passionate engagement with our literary heritage evinces pride in its unique character." -- Washington Post "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 new--an American fable of ideas." -- Shelf Awareness On The Boy in His Winter "Brilliant. . . . The Boy in His Winter is a glorious meditation on justice, truth, loyalty, story, and the alchemical effects of love, a reminder of our capacity to be changed by the continuously evolving world when it strikes fire against the minds flint, and by profoundly moving novels like this." -- NPR On American Meteor "[Walt Whitman] hovers over [ American Meteor ], just as Mark Twains spirit pervaded The Boy in His Winter . . . . Like all Mr. Locks books, this is an ambitious work, where ideas crowd together on the page like desperate men on a battlefield." -- Wall Street Journal On The Port-Wine Stain "Locks novel engages not merely with [Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Dent M Feature NARRATED BY TWO ICONS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: In the previous books of Norman Locks American Novels cycle, the literary, political, and cultural giants of the nineteenth century have been observed through the lens of fictional narrators. In Voices in the Dead House , the narrators are Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott themselves. Lock brilliantly illuminates their personalities by evoking their distinct voices to underscore the reasons their work has influenced generations of writers and delighted millions of readers. CRITICALLY LAUDED, CONNECTED NOVELS: Voices in the Dead House is the ninth installment in Locks American Novels series, an ambitious literary cycle addressing the legacy of the countrys founding figures and myths, in the tradition of John Banvilles Revolutions Trilogy, Jim Harrisons connected novels, Cormac McCarthys Border Trilogy, and William Vollmanns Seven Dreams series. The books of The American Novels series have been longlisted twice for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and were finalists for the Firecracker and Big Other Book Awards. Rave reviews for the series have appeared on NPR and in print and online outlets including the New York Times , Washington Post , Wall Street Journal , Readers Digest, and BuzzFeed , and the novels have garnered numerous starred reviews from Publishers Weekly , Kirkus Reviews , Booklist , Library Journal , Foreword Reviews , and Shelf Awareness . HISTORIC CAST OF CHARACTERS: Many readers and reviewers have praised Lock for, as Booklist puts it, his "uncanny ability to inhabit historical figures and meticulously capture the vernacular of the time like a transcendentalist ventriloquist." Although each installment in The American Novels cycle stands alone, fans will enjoy discovering the subtle connections between them and the way Lock pays homage to major American figures and genres: first with Mark Twain and the coming-of-age adventure story in The Boy in His Winter ; then with Walt Whitman and the Western in American Meteor ; Edgar Allan Poe and the gothic psychological thriller in The Port-Wine Stain ; Henry David Thoreau and other famous transcendentalists and abolitionists in a marriage of slave narrative and pastoral drama in A Fugitive in Walden Woods ; Emily Dickinson in a lyrical lament of love and innocence lost in The Wreckage of Eden ; Herman Melville in a dark tale of ambition and the secrets of the heart in Feast Day of the Cannibals ; Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and P.T. Barnum in a savage tragicomedy in American Follies ; Nathaniel Hawthorne in a revenge-fueled novel-within-a-novel of intergenerational guilt and redemption in Tooth of the Covenant ; and now with Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott narrating their own stories in Voices in the Dead House . Description for Sales People NARRATED BY TWO ICONS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: In the previous books of Norman Locks American Novels cycle, the literary, political, and cultural giants of the nineteenth century have been observed through the lens of fictional narrators. In Voices in the Dead House , the narrators are Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott themselves. Lock brilliantly illuminates their personalities by evoking their distinct voices to underscore the reasons their work has influenced generations of writers and delighted millions of readers. CRITICALLY LAUDED, CONNECTED NOVELS: Voices in the Dead House is the ninth installment in Locks American Novels series, an ambitious literary cycle addressing the legacy of the countrys founding figures and myths, in the tradition of John Banvilles Revolutions Trilogy, Jim Harrisons connected novels, Cormac McCarthys Border Trilogy, and William Vollmanns Seven Dreams series. The books of The American Novels series have been longlisted twice for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and were finalists for the Firecracker and Big Other Book Awards. Rave reviews for the series have appeared on NPR and in print and online outlets including the New York Times , Washington Post , Wall Street Journal , Readers Digest, and BuzzFeed , and the novels have garnered numerous starred reviews from Publishers Weekly , Booklist , Library Journal , Foreword Reviews , and Shelf Awareness . HISTORIC CAST OF CHARACTERS: Many readers and reviewers have praised Lock for, as Booklist puts it, his "uncanny ability to inhabit historical figures and meticulously capture the vernacular of the time like a transcendentalist ventriloquist." Although each installment in The American Novels cycle stands alone, fans will enjoy discovering the subtle connections between them and the way Lock pays homage to major American figures and genres: first with Mark Twain and the coming-of-age adventure story in The Boy in His Winter ; then with Walt Whitman and the Western in American Meteor ; Edgar Allan Poe and the gothic psychological thriller in The Port-Wine Stain ; Henry David Thoreau and other famous transcendentalists and abolitionists in a marriage of slave narrative and pastoral drama in A Fugitive in Walden Woods ; Emily Dickinson in a lyrical lament of love and innocence lost in The Wreckage of Eden ; Herman Melville in a dark tale of ambition and the secrets of the heart in Feast Day of the Cannibals ; Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and P.T. Barnum in a savage tragicomedy in American Follies ; Nathaniel Hawthorne in a revenge-fueled novel-within-a-novel of intergenerational guilt and redemption in Tooth of the Covenant ; and now with Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott narrating their own stories in Voices in the Dead House . Details ISBN195427601X Author Norman Lock Publisher Bellevue Literary Press Series The American Novels Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 195427601X ISBN-13 9781954276017 Format Paperback Pages 288 Imprint Bellevue Literary Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2022-10-20 US Release Date 2022-10-20 UK Release Date 2022-10-20 Publication Date 2022-10-20 DEWEY 813.6 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-01-02 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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