{"product_id":"american-meteor-paperback","title":"American Meteor - 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 scrappy Brooklyn orphan turned vengeful assassin narrates a visionary tale of the American West\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny--the second stand-alone book in The American Novels series--Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, receives a medal from General Grant, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, goes to work for railroad mogul Thomas Durant, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer. When he comes face-to-face with Crazy Horse, his life will be spared but his dreams haunted for the rest of his days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns elegiac and comic, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Meteor\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of adventure, ideas, and mourning: a unique vision of America's fabulous and murderous history.\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 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700519178303,"sku":"9781934137949","price":20.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5850df163e4984564507dccddbcda414.webp?v=1765017061","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/american-meteor-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}