{"product_id":"the-long-rowing-unto-morning-9781938603495","title":"The Long Rowing Unto Morning","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuietly,\n simply, elegantly, Norman Lock channels, through his “Plain Jane” \nnarrator, our gorgeous desolation, our longing for connection, both \nearthly and divine. \u003cem\u003eThe Long Rowing Unto Morning\u003c\/em\u003e spirits the reader into richly emotional and primal realms; it’s a book to return to again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e–– \u003cspan\u003eDawn Raffel\u003c\/span\u003e, Author of \u003cem\u003eCarrying the Body\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNorman Lock’s \u003cem\u003eThe Long Rowing Unto Morning \u003c\/em\u003ecaptures\n the life of a wounded and hampered individual whom we normally wouldn’t\n glance at twice, but does so so deftly and so masterfully that by the \nend we feel that she’s someone we’ve always been close to. Like Eva \nFiges, Lock is interested in exploring the complexities of memory and \nperception, in how age and an uncertain arrangement of the mind changes \nthe world. Lock allows us to see the world through an Other’s eyes in \nsuch a way that by the end the difference between us and her seems \nlittle more than a thin sheet of paper, if even that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e–– \u003cspan\u003eBrian Evenson, \u003c\/span\u003eAuthor of \u003cem\u003eAltmann’s Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Wavering Knife\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrator of \u003cem\u003eThe Long Rowing Unto Morning \u003c\/em\u003eis unforgettable. This is Norman Lock’s best fiction yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e–– \u003cspan\u003eMichael Kimball\u003c\/span\u003e, Author of \u003cem\u003eThe Way the Family Got Away\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuffice\n it to say that while Lock and [Noy] Holland share the same deliberately\n slow (but by no means methodical) rhythm … the restless gestures \ntowards a point outside the frame of the picture have, in Lock, been \ncollapsed until they occupy not gestures, but pulses rippling through \nthe protagonist’s mind like rain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e–– \u003cspan\u003eMiles Clark\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNewPages Book Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLock\n is interested in one of the most important questions we can encounter: \nwhat it means to be in the world. His metaphors of inaccessibility and \ncontainment are powerful and often devastating forces throughout the \nnovel. … It is a voice unlike any other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e–– \u003cspan\u003eCatherine Spangler\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRaven Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis\n is a portrait of a woman who is fully in touch with her own sense of \nloneliness and solitude and the slowness of time’s passing….No other \nbook, no other writer in recent memory, lives up to [Whitman’s] \ndeclaration that behind every book there is a hand reaching out to us, a\n hand to be held onto, a hand that has the power to touch us, to make us\n feel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e–– \u003cspan\u003ePeter Markus\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDetroit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Metro Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"yj6qo\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"adL\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Norman Lock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49074061902075,"sku":"9781938603495","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_6cebdf43-ab81-42e8-8cb8-0c8100042684.jpg?v=1784136584","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-long-rowing-unto-morning-9781938603495","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}