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.
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“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. I finished this absolutely
elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive.”
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David Oshinsky, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Polio: An American Story