Lawrence Eisenberg

Norman's Present Lawrence Eisenberg

This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author's bio: Normans Present (formerly The Villa of the Ferromonte) was Lawrence Eisenbergs first novel. He has since written Temptation, a satiric novel set in Hollywood, and a biography, Jack Nicholson: The Search for a Superstar. For the past two decades his articles have also appeared in most major magazines. He and his wife, the former Barbara Frances Smith, are lifelong New Yorkers. Description: An adult fairy tale . In 1970s New York, 26-year-old Norman Dickens visits his once-wealthy and fabulous aunts, now ill, impoverished and living in clutter and filth. One night, unknown to them, he discovers how they cope . . . by going into their tiny apartment's back room and inexplicablly returning to their halcyon days in the Rome of the 1920s. His life is dramatically changed when he follows them.