American Novels: The Boy in His Winter (Paperback)

from TheTwoDs

An audacious experiment, Lock posits Huck Finn as a time traveler, his raft becoming a time machine, carrying Huck and Jim down the Mississippi and from the 19th through the 20th and into the 21st century. While on the river, they experience the changes in American civilization - from the Civil W...

from Esta1923

This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. "The Boy in His Winter" by Norman Lock is subtitled "An American Novel." It is about America and our history, and narrator Huck Finn is an American, but within its 188 pages fantasy and fact prove to be strange bedfellows. Quite late in hi...

from richardderus

Rating: 3.5* of five The Publisher Says: Launched into existence by Mark Twain, Huck Finn and Jim 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 Civ...

from DonnaMarieMerritt

THE BOY IN HIS WINTER by Norman Lock is, well...different. At almost 200 pages that span over 240 years (with Huck Finn spending the first 170 of those years time-traveling on a raft but rarely leaving it), I'm not sure exactly where the story is supposed to be going; it meanders as much as the M...

from fuzzy_patters

In The Boy In HIs Winter, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Jim travel on the raft down the Mississippi except that the raft now travels through time. The story is told in the first person by Huck Finn as an octogenarian in the year 2077. While a strange concept, I did like it and thought that it...