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Feast Day of the Cannibals

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by Norman Lock
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Availability:In StockContributor:Norman LockSeries:American NovelsPublish date:2019-07-16Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bellevue Literary PressISBN-13:9781942658467ISBN-10:194265846XUPC:9781942658467Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Biographical, Literary, LGBTQ+Book Topic:GaySize:7.40 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCG421JYE8

A bankrupt merchant encounters Herman Melville and is pursued through the depths of Gilded Age Manhattan by a brutal antagonist

In the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 1873-79, is hired as a New York City Custom House appraiser under inspector Herman Melville, the embittered, forgotten author of Moby-Dick. On the docks, Ross befriends a genial young man and makes an enemy of a despicable one, who attempts to destroy them by insinuating that Ross and the young man share an unnatural affection. Ross narrates his story to his childhood friend Washington Roebling, chief engineer of the soon-to-be-completed Brooklyn Bridge. As he is harried toward a fate reminiscent of Ahab's, he encounters Ulysses S. Grant, dying in a brownstone on the Upper East Side; Samuel Clemens, who will publish Grant's Memoirs; and Thomas Edison, at the dawn of the electrification of the city.

Feast Day of the Cannibals charts the harrowing journey of a tormented heart during America's transformative age.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Bellevue Literary PressISBN-13:9781942658467ISBN-10:194265846XUPC:9781942658467Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Biographical, Literary, LGBTQ+Book Topic:GaySize:7.40 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCG421JYE8

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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