Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twain's classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own. Membership Advantages. Reviews. "Beyond the Book" articles. Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature’s most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn’s father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twain’s classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own. Finn sets a tragic figure loose in a landscape at. · FINN. by Jon Clinch ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 27, The Finn in question is not Huck, but his father, a “strange sad monster” in newcomer Clinch’s bold and deeply disturbing work. Bad as he was in Twain’s masterpiece, here Pap Finn has ballooned into something far worse: “Incarnate personal evil.”. Clinch eschews a linear narrative.
Dive deep into Jon Clinch's logn-fiction novel Finn with a summary. extended analysis, commentary, and discussion. Published in , Finn explores racism in 19th-century America. FINN. by Jon Clinch ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 27, The Finn in question is not Huck, but his father, a "strange sad monster" in newcomer Clinch's bold and deeply disturbing work. Bad as he was in Twain's masterpiece, here Pap Finn has ballooned into something far worse: "Incarnate personal evil.". Clinch eschews a linear narrative. Clinch, John. "Finn: A Novel", Random House, Huckleberry Finn's Father Amos Lassen I remember reading "Huckleberry Finn" when I was in both high school and college and getting two different views of it, When I saw the book, "Finn", I naturally assumed that my friend Huck was back in my life but I.
Jon Clinch's Finn (whose first name we never learn - the author knows, but he's not telling) grew up not in a shack in the woods but in the big white house on the hill, the son of an important judge. The Judge is a stern, hard, uncaring man, just the type to turn a naturally rebellious son passionately against him. FINN. by Jon Clinch ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 27, The Finn in question is not Huck, but his father, a “strange sad monster” in newcomer Clinch’s bold and deeply disturbing work. Bad as he was in Twain’s masterpiece, here Pap Finn has ballooned into something far worse: “Incarnate personal evil.”. Clinch eschews a linear narrative, looping back and forth between time periods; he aims to cast a wide net, pillorying not just one individual but the pathology of racism. Jon Clinch’s first novel has done it: sucked me under like I was a rag doll thrown into the wake of a Mississippi steamboat Jon Clinch has turned in a nearly perfect first book, a creative response that matches The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in intensity and tenacious soul-searching about racism. I wish I could write well enough to construct a dramatic, subtle and mysterious story out of careful, plodding and unromantic prose, but for now I’m just happy to have an alchemist like.
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