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Norman Lock - Old Man and the Heath, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Old Man and the Heath

A Novel and Stories

Av Norman Lock

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Shakespeare reimagined in a novel of King Lear, resurrected from the heath to bear witness at time’s end, and six stories that present the Bard’s bit characters anewNorman Lock recasts King Lear as a survivor of Shakespeare’s tragic play, condemned to live as an old man forever on the heath, where the bucolic landscape evolves into a post-industrial ruin. Reduced from the pinnacle of power to the depths of homelessness and servitude, Lear observes history’s processional across the centuries. In the seventeenth century, he witnesses the stoning of a young woman, whose martyrdom is commemorated by pilgrims who erect a cathedral to house her bones. Later, he must eke out a living as the site becomes a garrison for Cromwell’s soldiers; then an abbey during the plague; a shoe factory at the start of the Industrial Revolution; a military hospital during the First and Second World Wars; a late twentieth-century Shakespearean repertory theater; a swank apartment building; and, in the near future, a “shooting gallery” from which he rescues a young woman whom he names Cordelia.In the companion stories to Lear’s tale, Lock brings six of Shakespeare’s minor characters to center stage, where they emerge from their traditional roles in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, and Hamlet.An homage to Shakespeare’s enduring hold on our imagination, The Old Man and the Heath is a triumph of originality and invention.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-05-06
  • Mått: 139 x 209 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Förlag: Bellevue Literary Press
  • ISBN: 9781954276666
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Norman Lock is the author of The Old Man and the Heath: A Novel and Stories, the dozen volumes of The American Novels series, the short story collection Love Among the Particles, and additional novels, short fiction, poetry, and stage and radio plays. Among other honors, he has been longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and won The Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and Big Other Book Award for Fiction. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.

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Select Praise for Norman Lock“All hail Lock, whose narrative soul sings fairy tales, whose language is glass.” —Kate Bernheimer“[Lock] has an impressive ability to create a unique and original world.” —Brian Evenson“One could spend forever worming through [Lock’s] magicked words, their worlds.” —Blake Butler, Believer“[Lock’s writing] lives up to Whitman’s words . . . no other writer, in recent memory, dares the reader to believe there is a hand reaching out to be held, a hand to hold onto us.” —Peter Markus, Metro Times“Lock is a rapturous storyteller, and his tales are never less than engrossing.” —Gabriel Blackwell, Kenyon Review“[A] contemporary master of the form [and] virtuosic fabulist.” —Emily Temple, Flavorwire“Lock’s work mines the stuff of dreams.” —Tobias Carroll, Rumpus“Stories make their own realities, just as histories do, and Lock’s uniquely intricate understanding of this dynamic is what makes [his] tales so inimitable.” —Nathan Weatherford, Full StopSelect Praise for Norman Lock’s The American Novels Series“Norman Lock has created a memorable portrait gallery of American subjects, in a succession of audaciously imagined, wonderfully original, and beautifully written novels unlike anything in our literature.” —Joyce Carol Oates“Shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” —Jane Ciabattari, NPR“Rendered with an eloquence any journalist would envy.” —Alida Becker, New York Times Book Review“Dazzling. . . . Lock’s supple, elegantly plain-spoken prose captures the generosity of the American spirit in addition to its moral failures, and his passionate engagement with our literary heritage evinces pride in its unique character.” —Wendy Smith, Washington Post“This is fiction of a high caliber. . . on the cutting edge of history, providing us with a way to grapple with our evolving sense of the past, as we wonder what is next.” —Carl Rollyson, New York Sun

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