{"product_id":"the-night-ocean-9781101981092","title":"The Night Ocean","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author and \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the \"old gent\" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends--or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist, and she doesn't believe them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA tour-de-force of storytelling, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e follows the lives of some extraordinary people: Lovecraft, the most influential American horror writer of the 20th century, whose stories continue to win new acolytes, even as his racist views provoke new critics; Barlow, a seminal scholar of Mexican culture who killed himself after being blackmailed for his homosexuality (and who collaborated with Lovecraft on the beautiful story \"The Night Ocean\"); his student, future Beat writer William S. Burroughs; and L.C. Spinks, a kindly Canadian appliance salesman and science-fiction fan -- the only person who knows the origins of \u003ci\u003eThe Erotonomicon\u003c\/i\u003e, purported to be the intimate diary of Lovecraft himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a heartbroken Marina follows her missing husband's trail in an attempt to learn the truth, the novel moves across the decades and along the length of the continent, from a remote Ontario town, through New York and Florida to Mexico City. \u003ci\u003eThe Night Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e is about love and deception -- about the way that stories earn our trust, and betray it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781101981092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Paul La Farge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36647981416604,"sku":"9781101981092","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3aac0cfc-333e-4f52-a2b2-f4ce0ff40ec2.jpg?v=1607587569","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-night-ocean-9781101981092","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}