American Meteor (The American Novels), by Norman Lock
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Publishers Weekly “Book of the Year”Firecracker Award Finalist“Sheds brilliant light along the meteoric path of American westward expansion. . . . [A] pithy, compact beautifully conducted version of the American Dream, from its portrait of the young wounded soldier in the beginning to its powerful rendering of Crazy Horse's prophecy for life on earth at the end.” —NPR“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 JournalIn this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny, 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.By turns elegiac and comic, American Meteor is a novel of adventure, ideas, and mourning: a unique vision of America’s fabulous and murderous history. Norman Lock is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. His recent works of fiction include the short story collection Love Among the Particles, a Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year, and three 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 named a Firecracker Award finalist and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and The Port-Wine Stain, a gothic psychological thriller featuring Edgar Allan Poe. Lock lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.
American Meteor (The American Novels), by Norman Lock- Amazon Sales Rank: #520219 in Books
- Brand: Lock, Norman
- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.40" h x .60" w x 5.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
Review Praise for American MeteorFirecracker Award FinalistPublishers Weekly “Book of the Year” selectionBustle “11 Books to Read if You Hope The Revenant Wins [an Oscar]” selectionLitReactor “8 Raw Westerns to Read” selectionLibrary Journal “BookExpo America Book That Buzzed” selection“Sheds brilliant light along the meteoric path of American westward expansion. . . . [A] pithy, compact beautifully conducted version of the American Dream, from its portrait of the young wounded soldier in the beginning to its powerful rendering of Crazy Horse's prophecy for life on earth at the end.” —NPR“In Norman Lock’s recent novel The Boy in His Winter the author set Huck Finn and the escaped slave Jim on a fantastical voyage down the Mississippi River through three centuries of American history—and clear into the future. Far from a sequel to Twain’s classic, that book was an intensely personal contemplation of themes such as racial injustice and environmental degradation. With his new novel, American Meteor, Mr. Lock elaborates these ideas in another disturbing meditation on our national past. . . . . 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“For a young country, the United States has had a violent and complicated history, one that is brilliantly brought to life by Norman Lock’s American Meteor. An enthralling coming-of-age story that also follows the tale of Manifest Destiny, American Meteor makes history as interesting as the year’s biggest blockbusters.” —Bustle“[American Meteor] is not only a history lesson but also a reading pleasure.” —Historical Novels Review“Like the western sky, American Meteor stretches to the horizon in all directions. . . . A lovely panorama to behold.” —New York Journal of Books“Lovely, burnished prose.” —Small Press Book Review“American Meteor is at its heart a frontier yarn of adventure and discovery, insight and yearning [for] readers who savor the well-turned phrase and those who demand a little swash with their buckle.” —Four Corners Free Press“American Meteor is a fascinating, prophetic contribution to recent historical fiction, and Lock is plainly an author well worth our attention.” —Monkeybicycle“An adventure tale that practically bleeds Americana. . . . For fans of Little Big Man, this might be the book you didn’t know you were waiting for.” —LitReactor“American Meteor is, at its core, a spiritual treatise that forces its readers to examine their own role in history’s unceasing march forward [and] casts new and lyrical light on our nation’s violent past.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers (starred review)“[American Meteor] feels like a campfire story, an old-fashioned yarn full of rich historical detail about hard-earned lessons and learning to do right.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Memorably encompasses grand themes and notions of transcendence without ever losing sight of the grit and moral horrors present in the period.” —Kirkus Reviews“Rather like Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man. . . . [Lock] writes beautifully, with many subtle, complex insights.” —Booklist“Successfully blends beautiful language reminiscent of 19th-century prose with cynicism and bald, ugly truth.” —Library JournalPraise for Norman Lock“[Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” —NPR“One of the most interesting writers out there.” —Reader’s Digest“One of our country’s unsung treasures.” —Green Mountains Review“Our finest modern fabulist.” —Bookslut“A master storyteller.” —Largehearted Boy“[A] contemporary master of the form [and] virtuosic fabulist.” —Flavorwire“A master of the unusual.” — Slice magazine“Lock’s work mines the stuff of dreams.” —Rumpus“One could spend forever worming through [Lock’s] magicked words, their worlds.” —Believer“No other writer in recent memory, lives up to [Whitman’s] declaration that behind every book there is a hand reaching out to us, a hand to be held onto, a hand that has the power to touch us, to make us feel.” —Detroit Metro Times“Lock is a rapturous storyteller, and his tales are never less than engrossing.” —Kenyon Review“Lock writes some of the most deceptively beautiful sentences in contemporary fiction. Beneath their clarity are layers of cultural and literary references, profound questions about loyalty, race, the possibility of social progress, and the nature of truth.” —Shelf Awareness“Lock plays profound tricks, with language—his is crystalline and underline-worthy.” —Publishers Weekly“Lock’s stories stir time as though it were a soup . . . beyond the entertainment lie 21st-century conundrums: What really exists? Are we each, ultimately, alone and lonely? Where is technology taking humankind?” —Kirkus Reviews“I can’t think of another author who takes such evident, vocal delight in bending the laws of physics and geography (to say nothing of his flouting of various narratological and fictional norms). You can feel the joy leaping off the page.” —Full Stop“[Lock] is not engaged in neither homage or pastiche but in an intense dialogue with a number of past writers about the process of writing, and the nature of fiction itself . . . taking a trope that seems familiar to readers of the weird but analysing it in the fiercest detail.” —Weird Fiction“[Lock’s] window onto fiction [is] a welcome one: at once referential and playful, occupying a similar post-Borges space to the short stories of Stephen Millhauser and Neil Gaiman.” —Vol. 1 Brooklyn“All hail Lock, whose narrative soul sings fairy tales, whose language is glass.” —KATE BERNHEIMER, editor of xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, and Fairy Tale Review“[Lock] has an impressive ability to create a unique and original world.” —BRIAN EVENSON, author of Windeye and Immobility“Lock is one of our great miniaturists, to be read only a single time at one’s peril.” —TIM HORVATH, author of Understories
About the Author Norman 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 three books in The American Novels series: The Boy in His Winter, a re-envisioning of Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that Scott Simon of NPR’s 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 Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and The Port-Wine Stain, an homage to Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Dent Mütter (forthcoming in 2016). Lock lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. A wonderful western novel By Marcheto Algernon 4.5 stars in fact“American Meteor” has been an extremely pleasant surprise for me. I didn’t know anything about Norman Lock before reading this book and I’m not particularly fond of western fiction, so I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I did.Stephen Moran is just a poor boy when he joins the Union Army at the age of thirteen, but despite this fact he is going to meet quite a few personages during his live: Walt Whitman, Custer, Crazy Horse… and he’s going to play an important role in some critical events in American history. I must confess that not being American myself, I thought some of these people were fictional (the photographer William Henry Jackson, the railway tycoon Thomas Durant, and probably some others) until I checked after finishing the novel. And the same goes for some striking events that may be well known for American but not for me (Lincoln’s funeral train, the important role played by Chinese immigrants in the first transcontinental railroad…). So, although this chance to make acquaintance with some relevant figures and events of American history may have been one of the main reasons why I found this novel so compelling, it was not the only one. The old style prose was beautiful; there was plenty of humor, even in the more dramatic situations; the touch of weird of the prophetic dreams was brilliant; the length of the book (around 200 pages) perfect; the plot engaging, the main characters well developed…I’ve enjoyed “American Meteor” as much as I enjoyed “Miller’s Crossing”, by John Edward Williams, which was one of my favorite reads last year. And I’m sure that “American Meteor” will be among my best reads this year. A fact especially remarkable not being a great fan of western novels, as I said before. So, all in all, this is a wonderful book by an author I look forward to reading more in the future.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A 19th century American story By CJG I'm somewhat of a coming-of-age novel following the life Stephen Moran, "American Meteor" begins with Stephen's role in the Civil War as a young bugle boy. After the war, Stephen's life follows that of American Westward expansion and he comes into contact with many popular and not so popular figures of American history.Overall, I thought the book started out fantastically and I had high hopes initially. However, it did slow down and become less interesting as the book went on in my opinion. I would say this book is just okay: not great but not terrible either.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Picaresque Novel of the Building (or is it destroying?) of America By Ted Lehmann American Meteor by Norman Lock (Believe Literary Press, 2015, 208 pages, $27.99/10.99) is a picaresque coming of age novel featuring narrator Stephen Moran, a product of mid-nineteenth century Irish lower East Side of New York, as a Western Forest Gump, hitting many of the historical highlights of the westward expansion during and after the Civil War from Manassas to the Little Big Horn. Along the way he meets and is influenced by many of the seminal characters of that era, describing in often flowery, luminous language his experiences as he develops. While described as a “Western” novel, this worthy piece does not strike me as the sort of heroic, shoot-em-up western my reading experience has led me to expect with that designation. Rather, taking a reflective view of the Civil War and the rush to subdue the Indians while creating a continental nation, Lock creates a memorable character who sees it all while providing a shimmering eulogy for the loss of one America in order to create another.Moran is not much of an actor in his westward trip. Rather, he's an observer, eventually becoming that most detached of observers, a photographer capturing for posterity the events of a westward-bound people. We first see him as an Irish street urchin at the beach in Brooklyn where he observes a wild Walt Whitman proclaiming, to the waves hitting the shore, his love for everything. Moran finds himself in trouble, and sentenced to the Union Army where, because of his youth and small stature, he becomes a bugler, one who sounds the charge and proclaims the loss through his instrument. He's present at Bull Run, trains endlessly in Washington under McClelland, and is wounded in the Wilderness, where he loses an eye under rather unclear circumstances, but a pervasive image thoughout the novel. While in the hospital, he's nursed back to health by Whitman, who gives him a copy of Leaves of Grass, providing him with a wealth of imagery and understanding of American expansiveness which yields him insights throughout the rest of his journey. When Lincoln is assassinated, Stephen is there to play the bugle and Grant awards him with an undeserved Medal of Honor, which lubricates his stature. He's chosen to accompany Lincoln's body back to Springfield, playing taps along the way at each stop, while riding in the funeral car as Lincoln decomposes. Please read the rest of this review on my blog.
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