{"product_id":"9781101981092-the-night-ocean","title":"La Farge Paul - The Night Ocean - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Night Ocean\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): La Farge Paul\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Penguin Putnam Inc\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781101981092\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 400 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 4\/3\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"La Farge Paul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49612530516273,"sku":"IN-G-9781101981092","price":16.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781101981092.jpg?v=1724605722","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781101981092-the-night-ocean","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}