Love Among the Particles [Paperback] Lock, Norman

A dark and marvelous journey from the Industrial Age through Hollywood’s Golden Age, into the Digital Age and beyond

Mr. Hyde finally reveals his secrets to an ambitious journalist, unleashing unforeseen horrors. An ancient Egyptian mummy is revived in 1935 New York to consult on his Hollywood biopic. A Brooklynite suddenly dematerializes and passes through the internet, in search of true love . . .

Love Among the Particles is virtuosic storytelling, at once a poignant critique of our romance with technology and a love letter to language. In a whirlwind tour of space, time, and history, Norman Lock creates worlds that veer wildly from the natural to the supernatural via the pre-modern, mechanical, and digital ages. Whether reintroducing characters from the pages of Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, and Gaston Leroux, or performing dizzying displays of literary pyrotechnics, these stories are nothing less than a compendium of the marvelous.

Norman Lock is the author of The Old Man and the Heath: A Novel and Stories, the dozen volumes of The American Novels series, the short story collection Love Among the Particles, and additional novels, short fiction, poetry, and stage and radio plays. Among other honors, he has been longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and won The Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and Big Other Book Award for Fiction. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.