· “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.”Released on: J. · Norman Lock’s novel American Meteor is comprised of the first-person deathbed account of Stephen Moran, whose invented life spans the end of the nineteenth and the start of the twentieth centuries, and includes encounters with many of the great men of the era. He narrates the loss of his eye while fighting for the Union in the Civil war; his subsequent role escorting Abraham Lincoln’s Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. 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.
American Meteor. By Norman Lock - Published Genres: Literary. April Private Stephan Moran, 18, bugler for the rd New York, loses one eye through carelessness with his gun. For this, he receives an Read Review. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for American Meteor by Norman Lock (Paperback, ) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Norman Lock has created a tightly written episodic journey through a crucial part of American history in American Meteor (Believe Literary Press, , pages, $/). It's literary fiction, filled with allusions, imagery, and scraps of Walt Whitman's poetry, usrf to illustrate and enhance many of protagonist Stephen Moran's adventures.
Norman Lock has written novels, short fiction, and poetry as well as stage plays, dramas for German radio, a film for The American Film Institute, and scenarios for video-art installations. His plays have been produced in the U.S., Germany, at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, and in Turkey. “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.”. 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.
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