Huck Out West A Novel [Hardcover]

Magical....Among the many elements that Coover imitates so well is Twains misanthropy, his macabre sense of humor and his perpetually offended innocence....Indeed, everybody seems to be growing old except Huck, who remains a voice of perplexed kindness, and Coover, who, at 84, is still a miraculously sharp writer.An audacious and revisionary sequel to Twains masterpiece. It is both true to the spirit of Twain and quintessentially Cooveresque.Coovers speculations on what happened to Huck after he broke free of his Missouri hometown make for a wildly funny, violently imaginative Western yarn with caustic humor Twain himself might have envied.A spacious-skies frontier ripsnorter that stands alone as a wildly funny, violently imaginative Western yarn with flamboyant plot turns and caustic humor Twain himself might have appreciated, if not envied....[a] droll yet faithful replication of Twains first-person narration.Mr. Coover has been one of the country's leading postmodernists. ButRowdy, funny, and brilliant....Its not necessary to remember Mark Twains classic to enjoy this tale....Its Cormac McCarthysAn astonishing picaresque novel, narrated by Huck himself in a voice as authentic as Twain's original creation....An extraordinary book&a beautifully earnest and direct work from perhaps the most formidable trickster in American letters. Anyone with an ounce of heart in their chests should read this immediately.InA giant stands on the shoulders of a giant, and the view is large and giddying. In its vibrant skylarking and in its yearning undertow, this disenchanted enchantment throws new light on Twains Americaand on Robert Coover's.Our leading postmodernist novelist turns his iconoclastic eye to a great American classic in this sequel to