{"product_id":"the-boy-in-his-winter-an-american-novel-paperback","title":"The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNorman Lock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHuck Finn's mythic adventures--and childhood--abruptly end when he steps off his raft into Hurricane Katrina\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuck Finn and Jim float on their raft across a continuum of shifting seasons, feasting on a limitless supply of fish and stolen provisions, propelled by the currents of the mighty Mississippi from one adventure to the next. Launched into existence by Mark Twain, they have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history. As time unfurls on the river's banks, they witness decisive battles of the Civil War, the betrayal of Reconstruction's promises to the freed slaves, the crushing of Native American nations, and the electrification of a continent. While Jim enters real time when he disembarks the raft in the Jim Crow South, Huck finally comes of age when he's washed up on shore during Hurricane Katrina. An old man in 2077, Huck takes stock of his life and narrates his own story, revealing our nation's past, present, and future as Mark Twain could never have dreamed it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first stand-alone book in The American Novels series, \u003ci\u003eThe Boy in His Winter\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour-de-force work of imagination, beauty, and courage that re-envisions a great American literary classic for our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorman Lock\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage and radio plays. He has won The Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, and has been longlisted twice for the Simpson\/Joyce Carol Oates Prize. He has also received writing fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.4 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769945915680,"sku":"9781934137765","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/09f439460202f8c9faa1dd2ef0f833fc.webp?v=1780360511","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-boy-in-his-winter-an-american-novel-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}