Binding: Paperback
Description: From the award - winning author and New Yorker contributor a riveting novel about secrets and scandals psychiatry and pulp fiction inspired by the lives of H. P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett M. D. has a problem. Her husband Charlie has become obsessed with H. P. Lovecraft in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends - - or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle a new scandal erupts and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist and she doesn't believe them. A tour - de - force of storytelling The Night Ocean follows the lives of some extraordinary people: Lovecraft the most influential American horror writer of the 20th century whose stories continue to win new acolytes even as his racist views provoke new critics; Barlow a seminal scholar of Mexican culture who killed himself after being blackmailed for his homosexuality (and who collaborated with Lovecraft on the beautiful story " The Night Ocean"); his student future Beat writer William S. Burroughs; and L. C. Spinks a kindly Canadian appliance salesman and science - fiction fan - - the only person who knows the origins of The Erotonomicon purported to be the intimate diary of Lovecraft himself. As a heartbroken Marina follows her missing husband's trail in an attempt to learn the truth the novel moves across the decades and along the length of the continent from a remote Ontario town through New York and Florida to Mexico City. The Night Ocean is about love and deception - - about the way that stories earn our trust and betray it.
Title: The Night Ocean
Author(s): La Farge Paul
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Barcode: 9781101981092
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 4/3/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction