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Huck Out West

Audiobook
Fiction: History / Literacy
Unabridged   9.5 hour(s)
Publication date: 01/10/2017

Huck Out West

A Novel

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Audio CD ISBN:9781681683812
Digital Download ISBN:9781681683829

Summary

Our leading postmodernist novelist turns his iconoclastic eye on a great American classic, evoking the language and irreverent spirit of Mark Twain.

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Product Description

At the end of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and his pal Tom Sawyer "light out for the Territory” to avoid “sivilization." In Robert Coover's vision of their Western adventures, Huck and Tom start by joining the famous but short-lived Pony Express. Tom becomes something of a hero and decides he'd rather own civilization than escape it, returning east to get a wife and a law degree. But Huck stays alone in the Territory; he guides wagon trains, scouts for both sides in the war, wrangles horses on a Chisholm Trail cattle drive, joins a bandit gang, finds an ill-fated pal in an army fort and another in a Lakota Sioux tribe, and eventually finds himself in the Black Hills just ahead of the 1876 Gold Rush. In the course of his adventures, Huck reunites with Tom, Jim, and Becky Thatcher and faces some hard truths and harder choices.

Reviews/Praise

"Summerer is at his best in mirroring Coover’s rendering of Twain’s idiosyncratic spelling and diction; listeners don’t see the spelling that accompanies the fanciful speech, but we hear it in every character’s voice." —Booklist Starred Audio

"Summerer enthusiastically delivers the many twists and turns in Huck's new adventures, delighting fans of Twain's famous character." —AudioFile

"Eric Michael Summer's narration does the story justice . . . He has a strong, clear voice, which helps create a believable adult version of Huck Finn." —Library Journal Audio Review

“In Huck Out West, Robert Coover brilliantly (and outrageously) revives Mark Twain’s cardinal character by way of deconstructing any number of our cherished myths. Coover is in fine antic form here—truly, Huck never had it so good.”—T.C. Boyle

"[A] pulsating anti-epic . . . Amid the chaos and savagery, [Robert Coover's] Huckleberry Finn still stands as Twain created him: an innocent, abroad in the new world, uncorrupted, truth-telling, the last angel of our better nature." —New York Times

Author Bio

Robert Coover is the author of The Universal Baseball Association, The Public Burning, and Spanking the Maid, among many others; he is a pioneer in the field of electronic writing and ran the International Writers Project at Brown University. He lives in Barcelona.

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