A Fugitive in Walden Woods (eBook)

Norman Lock (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
240 Seiten
Bellevue Literary Press (Verlag)
978-1-942658-23-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In the fourth American Novels series book, Henry David Thoreau’s principles are tested when a young man escapes from slavery into Walden Woods.

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Henry David Thoreaus principles are tested when a young man escapes from slavery into Walden WoodsIn Norman Locks fourth stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Samuel Long escapes slavery in Virginia, traveling the Underground Railroad to Walden Woods where he encounters Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Lloyd Garrison, and other transcendentalists and abolitionists. While Long will experience his coming-of-age at Walden Pond, his hosts will receive a lesson in human dignity, culminating in a climactic act of civil disobedience.Against this historical backdrop, Locks powerful narrative examines issues that continue to divide the United States: racism, privilege, and what it means to be free in America.

Autor

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. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2017
• Reihe/Serie: The American Novels
• Reihe/Serie: The American Novels
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 19th century • Abolitionists • America • American History • American Literature • American Novels series • based on real people • Biographical Fiction • book club • civil war era • famous authors as characters • Fiction • historical fiction • Literary Canon • literary fiction • Literature • national identity • Nineteenth century • Norman Lock • Novel • Reading Group • series fiction • Slavery • Thoreau • Transcendentalism • Underground Railroad • United States history
• ISBN-10: 1-942658-23-0 / 1942658230
• ISBN-13: 978-1-942658-23-8 / 9781942658238