A Fugitive in Walden Woods ~ Paperback ~ Norman Lock

Praise for The American Novels series: "A glorious meditation on justice, truth, loyalty, story, and the alchemical effects of love." NPR on The Boy in His Winter"Like all Mr. Lock's books, this is an ambitious work, where ideas crowd together on the page like desperate men on a battlefield." Wall Street Journal on American Meteor"A mesmerizingly twisted, richly layered homage to a pioneer of American Gothic fiction." New York Times Book Review on The Port-Wine StainSamuel 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, Norman Lock's powerful narrative examines issues that continue to divide the United States: racism, privilege, and what it means to be free in America.Norman Lock is the author of, most recently, the short story collection Love Among the Particles, and the three previous books in The American Novels series: The Boy in His Winter, a re-envisioning of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; American Meteor, an homage to Walt Whitman and William Henry Jackson; and The Port-Wine Stain, an homage to Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Dent Mutter. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next book in The American Novels series."Author BiographyNorman Lock is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. He has won The Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award, The Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, and writing fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Lock s recent works of fiction include the short story collection Love Among the Particles, a Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year, and four books in The American Novels series: The Boy in His Winter, a reenvisioning of Mark Twain s classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that Scott Simon of NPR Weekend Edition hailed for make[ing] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone; American Meteor, an homage to Walt Whitman and William Henry Jackson named a Firecracker Award finalist and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; The Port-Wine Stain, a mesmerizingly twisted, richly layered (New York Times Book Review) homage to Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Dent Mutter; and A Fugitive in Walden Woods, his homage to Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press). Lock lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series: The Wreckage of Eden, his homage to Emily Dickinson, and Feast Day of the Cannibals, his homage to Herman Melville." A Fugitive in Walden Woods Release Date Australia: June 13th, 2017