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
At the end of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory." In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys do just that, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war.
They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out to "whosoever." He rides shotgun on coaches, wrangles horses on a Chisholm Trail cattle drive, joins a gang of bandits, guides wagon trains, gets dragged into U.S. Army massacres, suffers a series of romantic and barroom misadventures.
He is eventually drawn into a Lakota tribe by a young brave, Eeteh, an inventive teller of Coyote tales who "was having about the same kind of trouble with his tribe as I was having with mine." There is an army colonel who wants to hang Huck and destroy Eeteh's tribe, so they're both on the run, finding themselves ultimately in the Black Hills just ahead of the 1876 Gold Rush.
This period, from the middle of the Civil War to the centennial year of 1876, is probably the most formative era of the nation's history. In the West, it is a time of grand adventure, but also one of greed, religious insanity, mass slaughter, virulent hatreds, widespread poverty and ignorance, ruthless military and civilian leadership, huge disparities of wealth. Only Huck's sympathetic and gently comical voice can make it somehow bearable.
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