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“[Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." —NPR“[Lock] is one of the most interesting writers out there." —Reader's Digest“Lock writes some of the most deceptively beautiful sentences in contemporary fiction. Beneath their clarity are layers of cultural and literary references, profound questions about loyalty, race, the possibility of social progress, and the nature of truth." —Shelf AwarenessIn this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, receives a medal from General Grant, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, goes to work for railroad mogul Thomas Durant,...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Norman Lock
- Publisher
- Bellevue Literary Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781934137956
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Western, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (51 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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