{"product_id":"the-night-ocean","title":"The Night Ocean","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Night Ocean (Hardcover, 1 pages – Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, 2017) – Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, 2017. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Like New\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMP3 CD Format 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul LaFarge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52369191076122,"sku":"9781664728837","price":153.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/2699\/9322\/files\/911gJbGVjIL._SY522.jpg?v=1781768970","url":"https:\/\/medicampus.store\/products\/the-night-ocean","provider":"medicampus.store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}