{"product_id":"the-boy-in-his-winter-an-american-novel-9781934137765","title":"The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\" Norman Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.\" --\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuck 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 river's banks, they witness decisive battles of the Civil War, the betrayal of Reconstruction's 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 he's 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 nation's past, present, and future as Mark Twain could never have dreamed it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first stand-alone book in The American Novels series, \u003ci\u003eThe Boy in His Winter\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour-de-force work of imagination, beauty, and courage that re-envisions a great American literary classic for our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorman Lock\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage and radio plays. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934137765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/10\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/16\/2014\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Norman Lock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36670959550620,"sku":"9781934137765","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0499217e-a65f-4f2f-84ca-0e8b7351e404.jpg?v=1603924078","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-boy-in-his-winter-an-american-novel-9781934137765","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}