"Make[s] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them
on your iPhone." --SCOTT SIMON, NPR Weekend Edition
"Brilliant...The Boy in His Winter is a glorious meditation on
justice, truth, loyalty, story, and the alchemical effects of love,
a reminder of our capacity to be changed by the continuously
evolving world 'when it strikes fire against the mind's flint,' and
by profoundly moving novels like this." --JANE CIABATTARI, NPR
Launched into existence by Mark Twain, 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 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
re-envisions a great American literary classic for our time. Norman
Lock is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and
poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. His recent works
of fiction include the short story collection Love Among the
Particles, a Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year, and three books
in The American Novels series: The Boy in His Winter, a
re-envisioning of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn; American Meteor, an homage to Walt Whitman and
William Henry Jackson named a Firecracker Award finalist and
Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and The Port-Wine Stain, a
gothic psychological thriller featuring Edgar Allan Poe. Lock lives
in Aberdeen, New Jersey.
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