{"product_id":"9781101981085","title":"The Night Ocean","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014629048560,"sku":"9781101981085","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101981085_p0.jpg?v=1763690154","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101981085","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}