Feast Day of the Cannibals

by Norman Lock

Book Overview

A bankrupt merchant encounters Herman Melville and is pursued through the depths of Gilded Age Manhattan by a brutal antagonist

In the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 1873-79, is hired as a New York City Custom House appraiser under inspector Herman Melville, the embittered, forgotten author of Moby-Dick. On the docks, Ross befriends a genial young...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194265846X
• ISBN13: 9781942658467
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.4"