Finn

Finn

This is the 10th-Anniversary Edition of Finn, with a new introduction by Jared Leto. In this masterful debut, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literatureâ€™s most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finnâ€™s father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twainâ€™s classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own. Finn sets a tragic figure loose in a landscape at once familiar and mythic. It begins and ends with a lifeless bodyâ€“flayed and stripped of all identifying marksâ€“drifting down the Mississippi. The circumstances of the murder, and the secret of the victimâ€™s identity, shape Finnâ€™s story as they will shape his life and his death. Along the way Clinch introduces a cast of unforgettable characters: Finnâ€™s terrifying father, known only as the Judge; his sickly, sycophantic brother, Will; blind Bliss, a secretive moonshiner; the strong and quick-witted Mary, a stolen slave who becomes Finnâ€™s mistress; and of course young Huck himself. In daring to re-create Huck for a new generation, Clinch gives us a living boy in all his human complexityâ€“not an icon, not a myth, but a real child facing vast possibilities in a world alternately dangerous and bright. Finn is a novel about race; about paternity in its many guises; about the shame of a nation recapitulated by the shame of one absolutely unforgettable family. Above all, Finn reaches back into the darkest waters of Americaâ€™s past to fashion something compelling, fearless, and new. Praise for Finn "A brutal, shocking and epic look in the mirror for all Americans.â€ â€” Jared Leto, from the introduction â€œRavishingâ€¦and a stand-alone marvel of a novel. Grade: A.â€ â€” Entertainment Weekly â€œClinch treads dangerous ground in making one of Americaâ€™s greatest novels his jumping-off point, but he brings it off magnificently.â€ â€” Dallas Morning News â€œClinchâ€™s riverbank Missouri feels postapocalyptic, and his Pap Finn is a crazed yet wily survivor in a polluted landscape.â€ â€” Newsweek â€œFinn strikes its most original chords in its bold imagining of possibilities left unexplored by Huckleberry Finn.â€ â€” Austin American-Statesman â€œAn inspired riff on one of literatureâ€™s all-time great villains.â€ â€” New Orleans Times-Picayune â€œA jolting companion to the mischievous antics of Huckleberry Finn.â€ â€” Christian Science Monitor â€œA triumph of successful plotting, convincing characterization and lyrical prose.â€ â€” Rocky Mountain News â€œShocking and charming, A folk-art masterpiece.â€ â€” New York Post â€œDisturbing and darkly compelling.â€ â€” Hartford Courant â€œJon Clinch pulls off the near impossible in his new novel, which brings Huck's dad to life in all his terrible humanness.â€ â€” Winston-Salem Journal â€œEvery fan of Twainâ€™s masterpiece will want to read this inspired spin-off, which could become an unofficial companion volume.â€ â€” Library Journal, starred review â€œFinn is as dark, as brutal, as ambivalent, and as insane as theÂ history and legacyÂ of American racial slavery.â€ â€” Mary Gaitskill, author of Veronica â€œClinchâ€™s tale is not only filled with echoes of the great American classic to which it is tied; it is destined to become one itself.â€ â€” Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants
Country USA
Brand Unmediated Ink
Manufacturer unmediated ink
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780692885345
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Unmediated Ink
Manufacturer	unmediated ink
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780692885345
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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