Huck Out West

by Robert Coover

Book Overview

At the end of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn , on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory." In Robert Coover's Huck Out West , also "wrote by Huck," the boys do just that, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war. They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393608441
• ISBN13: 9780393608441
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.3"