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Launched into existence by Mark Twain in 1835, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported through three transformative centuries of American history. They witness the Civil War, the betrayal of promises to the freed slaves, the crushing of the Native Americans, and the electrification of America. Huck, who comes of age when he's washed ashore during Hurricane Katrina, narrates the story as an older man in 2077, revealing the 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 is a tour de force work of imagination, beauty, and courage that reenvisions a great American literary classic for our time.
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"In this surreal and otherworldly river journey through time, Norman Lock transports Huck Finn down the Mississippi and deep into America's history-and future. Elegant and imaginative, The Boy in His Winter is a tale that's as hypnotic as it is profound."
Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Devil in the Grove
"I read Norman Lock's The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain's original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy-and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America's greatest river."
David Oshinsky, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Polio: An American Story
"Inspired by Mark Twain and propelled by the currents of the Mississippi River, this is a tall tale that Lock has abducted and handed over to Huck Finn…Lock plays profound tricks, with language-his is crystalline and underline-worthy-and with time, the perfect metaphor for which is the mighty Mississippi itself."
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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- SeriesAmerican Novels #1