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The night ocean / Paul La Farge.

by LaFarge, Paul.

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Penguin Press, 2017.

Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937. Short stories. Selections.

Married people -- Fiction.

Obsession (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.

9781101981085 (hc.)

1101981083 (hc.)

389 p. ; 25 cm.

"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."--From publisher.

Historical fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Literary fiction.

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