{"product_id":"the-port-wine-stain-norman-lock-9781942658061","title":"The Port-Wine Stain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young surgical assistant faces his doppelg舅ger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a \"lost\" Poe story.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his third stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Norman Lock recounts the story of a young Philadelphian, Edward Fenzil, who, in the winter of 1844, falls under the sway of two luminaries of the nineteenth-century grotesque imagination: Thomas Dent M?ter, a surgeon and collector of medical \"curiosities,\" and Edgar Allan Poe. As Fenzil struggles against the powerful wills that would usurp his identity, including that of his own malevolent doppelg舅ger, he loses his mind and his story to another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Port-Wine Stain\u003c\/i\u003e is a gothic psychological thriller whose themes are possession, identity, and storytelling that the master, Edgar Allan Poe, might have been proud to call his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norman Lock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1942658060\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942658061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/29\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2016 pg. 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/17\/2016","brand":"Norman Lock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940203757823,"sku":"9781942658061","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_85d93b43-d134-4b9e-bdf6-8d53afc4405a.jpg?v=1681445847","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-port-wine-stain-norman-lock-9781942658061","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}