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Book Description Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers – from Sherwood Anderson to Twain's fellow Missourian, T.S. Eliot, from Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner to J.D. Salinger – Huckleberry Finn, like the river which flows through its pages, is one of the great sources which nourished and still nourishes the literature of America.

This book--at times disjointed, rambling, self-referential, and irreverent--is decades ahead of its time. It's an interdisciplinarian's dream as Twain takes on economics, geography, politics, ancient and contemporary history, and folklore with equal ease. Mostly though, one appreciates his knack for exaggeration, the tall tale, and the outright lie. It's a triumph of tone, as he lets you in on his wild wit, his keen observation, and his penchant for bending the truth without losing his credibility as a guide. The book's structure is also modern: He recounts his days as a paddlewheel steam boat "cub," piloting the hundreds of miles of the Mississippi before the Civil War, then, in Part 2, returns to retrace his paddleboat route. Although a few of his many digressions don't work (they sometimes sound formulaic or too detailed) most of the narrative is extremely entertaining. Twain seems caught between admiration and disdain for the "modern" age-but he also rejects over-sentimentality over the past. He writes with beauty and cynicism, verve and humor. Very highly recommended!

This book was begun in Berkeley and completed in Charlotte, and the research was supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. It was a long time developing, and I’d like to thank the people who read and commented on it in various forms, in part or as a whole: Deborah Weiss, Ken Korey, Amos Deinard, Phyllis Dolhinow, Jonathan Beckwith, Alan Goodman, Jim Moore, Vincent Sarich, Phillip Johnson, Rika Kaestle, Debra Harry, SarahTishkoff, the participants in the 1999Wenner-Gren symposium called “Anthropology in the Age of Genetics,” and Regula Noetzli. Thanks as well to my editors at the University of California Press, Howard Boyer and Naomi Schneider.