{"product_id":"the-port-wine-stain-9781942658061","title":"The Port-Wine Stain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\" Norman Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.\" --\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. As Fenzil struggles against the powerful wills that would usurp his identity, including that of his own malevolent doppelg nger, he loses his mind and his story to another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Port-Wine Stain\u003c\/i\u003e is a gothic psychological thriller whose themes are possession, identity, and storytelling that the master, Edgar Allan Poe, might have been proud to call his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorman Lock\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942658061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/29\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2016 pg. 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/17\/2016\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Norman Lock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671741984924,"sku":"9781942658061","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_404a6361-3be4-4d4b-a2de-a6c3f55347bc.jpg?v=1603926144","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-port-wine-stain-9781942658061","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}