{"product_id":"the-port-wine-stain-paperback","title":"The Port-Wine Stain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNorman Lock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young surgical assistant faces his doppelgänger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a \"lost\" Poe story.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his third stand-alone 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\u003ci\u003eThe Port-Wine Stain\u003c\/i\u003e is a gothic psychological thriller whose themes are possession, identity, and storytelling that the master, Edgar Allan Poe, might have been proud to call his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 and radio plays. He has won The Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.4 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 14, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769825132832,"sku":"9781942658061","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cc0c4b4d464017c0042d7476e53d3e91.webp?v=1780357732","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-port-wine-stain-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}