Norman Lock Eden’s Clock review, recensie en informatie over de Amerikaanse historische roman. Op 1 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Bellevue Literary Press de nieuwe roman van Norman Lock, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Het is een nieuw deel in The American Novel Series. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Norman Lock Eden’s Clock review en recensie
- “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)
- “Our national history and literature are Norman Lock’s playground in his dazzling series, The American Novels. . . . [His] 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, The Washington Post)
Eden’s Clock
The American Novel Series
- Auteur: Norman Lock (Verenigde Staten
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse historische roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Bellevue Literary Press
- Verschijnt: 1 juli 2025
- Omvang: 304 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de nieuwe historische roman van Norman Lock
Rendered mute at the Battle of Gettysburg, Frederick Heigold returns to Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he marries a resolute suffragist and resumes his vocation as a clocksmith. Bereft after she dies in a freak accident, he accepts a commission to repair the enormous clock on the San Francisco Embarcadero, but the routine railway journey becomes a six-month odyssey. Finally reaching the Pacific, after having survived imprisonment, shipwreck on Edisto Island, and run-ins with assorted roughnecks and thieves, he happens upon novelist Jack London drinking in the Palace Hotel bar—just before one of the deadliest natural disasters in United States history.
Eden’s Clock, the twelfth and final stand-alone book in The American Novels series, calls into question the American belief in individualism to shape our destiny when confronted with irrepressible, chaotic forces.
Norman Lock is the award-winning author of the dozen volumes in The American Novels series, as well as other novels, short fiction, poetry, and 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 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.
