In 1871 Mark Twain settled with his new wife and infant son in
Hartford, Connecticut, turned his back on the travelling life and
the journalism he had pursued for the best part of two decades, and
wrote Roughing It, his first novel. The narrator is an American
from the East who travels West with his brother in search of
romance, success, money and celebrity - the all-encompassing
American Dream - but repeatedly fails to realise it. Instead of
finding 'buffaloes and Indians, and prairie dogs, and antelopes...
and nuggets of gold and silver on the hillside' in Nevada, he
discovers murderers, corrupt juries and smashed dreams. He tries
silver mining, but finds no silver, he tries speculating, but loses
a million - on paper. The quest for the dream becomes a catapult
into destitution, poverty and emotional loss. But tragedy and
comedy balance on a knife-edge, and it's the humour with which
Twain relates his hero's repeated failures that has made Roughing
It such an enduring American classic. (Kirkus UK)
A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s.
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