This challenging book provides an entertaining approach to developing mental arithmetic. Spend just a few minutes each day tackling the carefully graded tests and, in no time at all, you'll be able to perform mental gymnastics quickly and accurately.

Time Tests (Success at School)

Lock, Norman

Ladybird Books, Ltd.

A black comedy touched with absurdity and a philosophical bent that puts the torch to middle-class complacency. "...Lock's ideas lend tangy new flavor to an old form... HOUSE OF CORRECTION is first, last and always a superior mystery-comedy-thriller... He has written a fast moving, absurdist piece of neo-realistic suspense of the sort that works best only in the theater. It is a tribute to his talent..." Sylvie Drake, Los Angeles Times "...Norman Lock's treatment of the evils of psychotic schizophrenia versus the even more ugly aspects of pretentious armchair liberalism is nothing short of hilarious in this outing. It's offbeat and loony with a sitcom flare..." Teen., Daily Variety "...it's very funny, and very scary like a nightmare that wakes you up shaking, forcing you to reassess your life... Lock's weapon is words and he uses them well...his imagery is vivid, his dramatic momentum strong..." Tom Jacobs, L A Life "This is a delightfully dark, beautifully acted suspense comedy...a script that balances outrageous farce and human tragedy... It is Lock's gift for concocting eccentric characters and devilishly comic situations that propels the play." Downtown News (Los Angeles) "This rollercoaster of a play may well turn out to be one of the most significant new plays at this year's Fringe...a gripping, individualistic piece." The Stage (Edinburgh) "We are kept on the edge of our seats as events move toward a climax beyond expectation...makes us laugh our way up a mountain of suspense." The Scotsman "HOUSE OF CORRECTION moves from sitcom to Hitchcock, mingling the two so neatly that sometimes you don't know which you're watching." Naked (Edinburgh) "The play remains ingenious in identifying those essential American tenets and dragging them screaming and skewed to their conclusion." The Guardian (Edinburgh) "...entertaining but rigorous in its approach to important moral issues... This is the first chance for British audiences to see the 'absurdist comedy-thriller' that has played across America, but the questions it raises are bound to be relevant here as they are across the Atlantic." Glasgow and Edinburgh Events Guide

The House of Correction

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated

Fiction. In Java, a master of the shadow-puppet theater seeks to possess--by his art--a woman, who perishes as though by the contagion of his unnatural desire. SHADOWPLAY is a meditation on story-telling as an act of seizure, a parable of obsession and of the danger of confounding the real with its representations. "[A] journey as delicious as it is threatening"--R.M. Berry. "[Lock's] prose is melodial, and alert to every signal from the unseen"--Gary Lutz. "Wise up and get all you can of Lock"--Gordon Lish. "All hail Lock, whose narrative soul sings fairy tales..."--Kate Bernheimer. "Lock channels...our gorgeous desolation, our longing for connection, both earthly and divine"--Dawn Raffel.

Shadowplay

Contemporary

Ellipsis Press

Norman Lock's "Trio" combines his acclaimed Joseph Cornell's Operas and Emigres with Grim Tales, his riff on the Brothers Grimm. These masterful works of the imagination demonstrate Lock's innate ability to transform the fanciful into the tactile. He makes new things in exquisite words. A sample from Emigres: "A very old emigre, who was each day growing more forgetful, woke up in the dead of night, put on his best suit and tie, shined his shoes, put on his best hat (a rakish borsalino), and went to find the dancehall where fifty years before, in the distant country of his youth he had danced the tango, magnificently, with a girl whose silk dress he could still feel against his palms." From Joseph Cornells' Operas: "died young and Mad Ludwig drowned himself in the Starnberger and Lola Montes became a circus exhibit, but ah! the impresario answered, they flew, you know, until the end they all of them defied gravity such was the strength of their desirewho, we wondered, who then is Hubble peering at through his telescope, Lola Montes having long ago died? from his opera box Joseph Cornell said: her remnant of light still desiring."

Trio

Ravenna Press

Like his gorgeous Long Rowing Unto Morning, The King of Sweden centers on a woman who is simply misunderstood by a world where innocents are fooled into a myriad of seductions that lead to the unraveling of the most human of human hearts. It is Lock s great artistry to make such suffering beautiful and necessary, and to make out of this language an artifact that forces us to feel the inner turbulence of the characters who inhabit this masterful book.

The King of Sweden

Women's Fiction

"[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 Awareness" In 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, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer. When he comes face-to-face with Crazy Horse, his life will be spared but his dreams haunted for the rest of his days. By turns elegiac and comic, "American Meteor" is a novel of adventure, ideas, and mourning: a unique vision of America's fabulous and murderous history. Norman Lock is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. His recent works of fiction include "Love Among the Particles," a "Shelf Awareness" Best Book of the Year, and "The Boy in His Winter," a re-envisioning of Mark Twain's classic "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," which Scott Simon of NPR's "Weekend Edition" hailed for "mak[ing] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone." He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.

American Meteor (Thorndike Press Large Print Western)

United States

Thorndike Press Large Print

A Fugitive in Walden Woods (Thorndike Press Large Print Bill's Bookshelf)

Launched into existence by Mark Twain in 1835, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history. As time unfurls on the river s banks, they witness decisive battles of the Civil War, the betrayal of Reconstruction s promises to the freed slaves, the crushing of the Native American nations, and the electrification of a continent. Huck, who finally comes of age when he s washed up on shore during Hurricane Katrina, narrates the story as an older and wiser man in 2077, revealing our nation s past, present, and future as Mark Twain could never have dreamed it."The Boy in His Winter" is a tour de force work of imagination, beauty, and courage that reenvisions a great American literary classic for our time."

The Boy in His Winter Lib/E: An American Novel

Blackstone Publishing

[Read by Mark Bramhall] By turns elegiac and comic, American Meteor is a novel of adventure, ideas, and mourning: a unique vision of America's fabulous and murderous history. In 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, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer. When he comes face-to-face with Crazy Horse, his life will be spared but his dreams haunted for the rest of his days.

American Meteor Lib/E

Literary

A History of the Imagination is a postmodern tale of adventure that reshapes the parameters of time and space, thought and action. In a metaphorical Africa, replete with nostalgia (but no dimensions), anything can happen and usually does. The narrator defends his magical departures, saying his is a history of possibilities, where fiction is "no less real for [it's] being so." But when Darwin's corpse begins to lust after Colette and the African porters go on strike because the author hasn't acknowledged the important role they play, we are left to wonder: just how far is reality from dreams? Norman Lock juxtaposes remote times and places, historical facts and literary fictions, to create an absurdist collage reminiscent of Guy Davenport and Donald Barthelme. In this world it is not impossible to sail from Mombasa to Cinncinati, or to set out from the City of Radiant Objects, where "things are free of the obligation to signify," or to go hunting icebergs in a quest to avenge the Titanic at last. Borne aloft by Wilbur Wright, Jules Verne, Ziegfield, and Houdini, we find ourselves lost again in a "seam in the world...between History and Imagination."

A History of the Imagination

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Fiction Collective 2

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