Description " Norman Lock\'s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." -- NPR 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 man and makes an enemy of a despicable one, who at.
Description " Norman Lock\'s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." -- NPR 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
