{"product_id":"9781942658061","title":"The Port-Wine Stain","description":"\u003cbr\u003e“Mesmerizingly twisted, richly layered.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\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 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 Mütter, 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 doppelgänger, he loses his mind and his story to another.\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 reenvisioning of Mark Twain’s classic \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e that Scott Simon of NPR’s \u003ci\u003eWeekend Edition\u003c\/i\u003e hailed for “make[ing] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone”; \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, an homage to Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Dent Mütter. Lock lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bellevue Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063106060528,"sku":"9781942658061","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781942658061_p0.jpg?v=1763757317","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781942658061","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}