{"product_id":"9781504629607","title":"American Meteor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e “Book of the Year”\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFirecracker Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sheds brilliant light along the meteoric path of American westward expansion. . . . [A] pithy, compact beautifully conducted version of the American Dream, from its portrait of the young wounded soldier in the beginning to its powerful rendering of Crazy Horse's prophecy for life on earth at the end.” — \u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Like all Mr. Lock’s books, this is an ambitious work, where ideas crowd together on the page like desperate men on a battlefield.” — \u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns elegiac and comic, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Meteor\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of adventure, ideas, and mourning: a unique vision of America’s fabulous and murderous history. \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, radio, and screenplays. His recent works of fiction include the short story collection \u003ci\u003eLove Among the Particles\u003c\/i\u003e , a \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year, and three books in The American Novels series: \u003ci\u003eThe Boy in His Winter\u003c\/i\u003e , a re-envisioning of Mark Twain’s classic \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e ; \u003ci\u003eAmerican Meteor\u003c\/i\u003e , an homage to Walt Whitman and William Henry Jackson named a Firecracker Award finalist and \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year; and \u003ci\u003eThe Port-Wine Stain\u003c\/i\u003e , a gothic psychological thriller featuring Edgar Allan Poe. Lock lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053982892272,"sku":"9781504629607","price":50.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504629607_p0.jpg?v=1763713551","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504629607","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}