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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.

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CARL ROLLYSON
CARL ROLLYSON

‘Voices in the Dead House: A Novel’
By Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press, 284 pages

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CARL ROLLYSON
CARL ROLLYSON

Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. He has published fourteen biographies and has written about biography for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington, Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Criterion, and other publications.

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