The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel [Paperback]

[Norman Locks fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights. NPR

Huck 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 rivers banks, they witness decisive battles of the Civil War, the betrayal of Reconstructions 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 hes 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 nations past, present, and future as Mark Twain could never have dreamed it.

The first stand-alone book in The American Novels series,The Boy in His Winteris a tour-de-force work of imagination, beauty, and courage that re-envisions a great American literary classic for our time.

Norman Lockis the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series.

Norman Lockis the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. He has won The Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award,The Paris ReviewAga Khan Prize for Fiction, and 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 l¶