The Boy in His Winter Lib/E (Audiobook)

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 nancyadair

In the year 2077 Huck Finn reflects back on his life, beginning in 1835 when he and the escaped slave Jim began their raft journey down the Mississippi River. Somehow they became time travelers until Hurricane Katrina shipwrecked Huck back into passing time. Along the way, they saw America caught...

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...