Huck Out West (Wheeler Large Print Western) - Tapa blanda

With gusto and a rollicking plot, Coover tackles the daunting task of crafting a sequel to a Mark Twain classic....A lively and fast-paced encore for a beloved American hero.

This latest from Coover, one of the most prolific remixers of America s tall tales, fables, and myths, is both a tribute and a fitting postscript to Mark Twain s canonical work .With the humor and wit of Twain, Coover punctures the American myth of Manifest Destiny and the fantastical tales we create to avoid understanding and empathy."

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.--Alan Moore, author of Jerusalem"

Coover has something more than satire on his mind. Rather, he is out to deconstruct not a genre but American literary iconography....Coover effectively mirrors Twain s style and Huck s voice as well as the peripatetic movement of the original. More to the point, though, he is after consideration, or critique, of the narrative of westward expansion....This novel reminds us that the more things change, the more they stay the same."

As Robert Coover tells his tales, the world inhabited by Huck and Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, Jim, Huck s Lakota friend Eeteh and a host of other characters in this picaresque novel is frequently downright tragic. Still, as in Mark Twain s originals, the darkness is lightened by humorous wordplay and self-deprecating comedy....consistently entertaining."

Huck Out West [is] the latest to emerge from this wild genius's half-century outpouring of postmodernist books, stories, novellas and plays....Under Coover's hell-hot pen....this pulsating anti-epic....establishes Huck in exactly the place Twain himself planned to take him. --Ron Powers

Magical....Among the many elements that Coover imitates so well is Twain's 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.--Ron Charles

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 Twain's first-person narration.

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.--Alan Moore, author of Jerusalem

A 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 Twain's America--and on Robert Coover's.--Garth Risk Hallberg, author of City on Fire