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Norman Lock
"Our finest modern fabulist." --BookslutNorman Lock has written novels and short fiction as well as stage, radio and screen plays. He received the Aga Kahn Prize, given by The Paris Review, and the Literary Fiction Prize, given by The Dactyl Foundation of the Arts & Humanities, fellowships from... show more

"Our finest modern fabulist." --BookslutNorman Lock has written novels and short fiction as well as stage, radio and screen plays. He received the Aga Kahn Prize, given by The Paris Review, and the Literary Fiction Prize, given by The Dactyl Foundation of the Arts & Humanities, fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to Love Among the Particles, he is the author of the novels Shadowplay, The King of Sweden, and The Long Rowing Unto Morning, the short-fiction collections A History of the Imagination, Grim Tales, Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions, Trio, and Émigrés / Joseph Cornell's Operas, the novellas Land of the Snow Men and Escher's Journal, and the book-length poems In the Time of Rat and Cirque du Calder. His acclaimed Absurdist drama The House of Correction has been produced widely in the U.S., Germany, and at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival and, currently, in Istanbul. Radio plays broadcast by WDR, Germany, include Women in Hiding, The Shining Man, The Primate House, Let's Make Money, and Mounting Panic. Selected radio plays are published as Two Plays for Radio; stage plays, as Three Plays by Norman Lock. More at www.normanlock.com.
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 10 years ago
I liked the other volume better. I can't figure out if it is because I'm a woman or because it was simply better. However, there a few essays that are worth it, like the one about Jack and the Beanstalk. If you like Neil Gaiman and/or Jeff Vandermeer, you should know each has an essay in this.
Bibliophilic Monologues
Bibliophilic Monologues rated it 12 years ago
Remarkably self-indulgent. I don't like it when the author is so strongly present in the story that the story cannot breathe.
Forrest Aguirre, in the Leaves
Forrest Aguirre, in the Leaves rated it 15 years ago
My introduction to Lock. I was addicted from here on out.
Forrest Aguirre, in the Leaves
Forrest Aguirre, in the Leaves rated it 15 years ago
Absinthe and apemen. Need I say more?
Forrest Aguirre, in the Leaves
Forrest Aguirre, in the Leaves rated it 18 years ago
A hallucinogenic romp through the antarctic. Disturbing. This book jams itself into the crevices of your brain like ice-climbers in a glacier's chasm. This may be the perfect "little book" - thick with meaning and madness, hauntingly illustrated, short enough to be enjoyed in an evening, yet utterly...
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