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008			200204s20172017nyc 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781101981092
050	0	0	_aPS3602.R722885 _bA67 2012
082	1		_aFIC LAF _2
100	1		_aLa Farge, Paul
245	1	0	_aThe night ocean _c/ Paul La Farge
260			_aNew York _b: Penguin Books _c, 2017
300			_a389 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aMarina 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. 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.
546			_aEnglish
600	1	4	_aLovecraft, Howard Phillips, 1890-1937
650		4	_aMissing persons _v--Fiction
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
942			_cMO
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