Novelizing American History
Norman Lock’s ‘Voices in the Dead House’ is on the cutting edge, providing us with a way to grapple with our evolving sense of the past, as we wonder what is next.
‘Voices in the Dead House: A Novel’
By Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press, 284 pages
“Voices in the Dead House” is the ninth volume in Norman Lock’s American Novels series, with more to come. Populated with figures such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, U.S. Grant, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, General Custer, and Huck Finn, Mr. Lock’s fiction rivals Jerome Charyn’s prodigious recasting of American literature and history.
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