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A Fugitive in Walden Woods

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by Norman Lock
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Availability:In StockContributor:Norman LockSeries:American NovelsPublish date:2017-06-06Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bellevue Literary PressISBN-13:9781942658221ISBN-10:1942658222UPC:9781942658221Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Cultural Heritage, LiteraryBook Topic:Civil War EraSize:7.40 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCZHRD1EEK

Henry David Thoreau's principles are tested when a young man escapes from slavery into Walden Woods

In Norman Lock's fourth stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Samuel Long escapes slavery in Virginia, traveling the Underground Railroad to Walden Woods where he encounters Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Lloyd Garrison, and other transcendentalists and abolitionists. While Long will experience his coming-of-age at Walden Pond, his hosts will receive a lesson in human dignity, culminating in a climactic act of civil disobedience.

Against this historical backdrop, Lock's powerful narrative examines issues that continue to divide the United States: racism, privilege, and what it means to be free in America.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Bellevue Literary PressISBN-13:9781942658221ISBN-10:1942658222UPC:9781942658221Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Cultural Heritage, LiteraryBook Topic:Civil War EraSize:7.40 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCZHRD1EEK

Norman Lock is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage and radio plays. He has won The Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award, The Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, and has been longlisted twice for the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize. He has also received writing fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series.


Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press

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