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Finn - In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literatures most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finns father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twains classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own. Finn sets a tragic figure loose in a landscape at once familiar and mythic. It begins and ends with a lifeless bodyflayed and stripped of all identifying marksdrifting down the Mississippi. The circumstances of the murder, and the secret of the victims identity, shape Finns story as they will shape his life and his death. Along the way Clinch introduces a cast of unforgettable characters: Finns terrifying father, known only as the Judge; his sickly, sycophantic brother, Will; blind Bliss, a secretive moonshiner; the strong and quick-witted Mary, a stolen slave who becomes Finns mistress; and of course young Huck himself. In daring to re-create Huck for a new generation, Clinch gives us a living boy in all his human complexitynot an icon, not a myth, but a real child facing vast possibilities in a world alternately dangerous and bright. Finn is a novel about race; about paternity in its many guises; about the shame of a nation recapitulated by the shame of one absolutely unforgettable family. Above all, Finn reaches back into the darkest waters of Americas past to fashion something compelling, fearless, and new. Praise for Finn A brave and ambitious debut novel It stands on its own while giving new life and meaning to Twains novel, which has been stirring passions and debates since 1885 triumph of imagination and graceful writing. Bookstores and libraries shelve novels alphabetically by authors names. That leaves Clinch a long way from Twain. But on my bookshelves, they'll lean against each other. Id like to think that the cantankerous Twain would welcome the company. USA TODAY RavishingIn the saga of this tormented human being, Clinch brings us a radical (and endlessly debatable) new take on Twains classic, and a stand-alone marvel of a novel. Grade: A. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY A fascinating, original read. people HauntingClinch reimagines Finn in a strikingly original way, replacing Hucks voice with his own magisterial visionone thats nothing short of revelatorySpellbinding. WASHINGTON POST Meticulously craftedMarvelous imaginationThe Finn of Clinchs novel is certainly a racist villain but also psychologically disturbed and disconcertingly compelling. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE From the barest of hints in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Clinch has created a fully believable world inhabited by fully realized characters. Clinch treads dangerous ground in making one of Americas greatest novels his jumping-off point, but he brings it off magnificentlyThe language of this book is one of its great beautiesFinn is far from one-dimensional, and that is another beauty of the book. Clinch has a knack for putting us squarely inside the heads of his characters.Clinch draws as compelling and realistic a picture as any were likely to findFinn stands on its own. The richness of its language, the depth of its characters, the emotional and societal tangles through which they struggle to navigate add up to a portrait of life on the Mississippi as weve never before experienced it. dallas morning news His models may include Cormac McCarthy, and Charles Frazier, whose Cold Mountain also has a voice that sounds like 19th-century American (both formal and colloquial) but has a contemporary terseness and spikiness. This voice couldnt be better suited to a historical novel with a modernist sensibility: Clinchs riverbank Missouri feels postapocalyptic, and his Pap Finn is a crazed yet wily survivor in a polluted landscapeClinchs Pap is a convincingly nightmarish extrapolation of Twains. Hes the mad, lost and dangerous center of a world wed hate to live inor do we still live there?and crave to revisit as soon as we close the book. newsweek I havent been swallowed whole by a work of fiction in some time. Jon Clinchs first novel has done it: sucked me under like I was a rag doll thrown into the wake of a Mississippi steamboatJon 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 Im just happy to have an alchemist like Jon Clinch do it for me. BOOKSLUT Finn strikes its most original chords in its bold imagining of possibilities left unexplored by Huckleberry Finn. austin american-statesman An inspired riff on one of literatures all-time great villainsThis tale of fathers and sons, slavery and freedom, better angels at war with dark demons, is filled with passages of brilliant description, violence that is close-up and terrifyingEverything in this novel could have happened, and we believe it so the great river of stories is too, twisting and turning, inspiring such surprising and inspired riffs and tributes as Finn. new orleans times-picayune A triumph of succesful plotting, convincing characterization and lyrical prose. ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Shocking and charming. Clinch creates a folk-art masterpiece that will delight, beguile and entertain as it does justice to its predecessorIn Finn, Clinch expands the bloodlines and scope of the original story and casts new light on the troubled legacy of our countrys infamous past. new york post In Clinchs retelling, Pap Finn comes vibrantly to life as a complex, mysterious, strangely likable figureClinch includes many sharply realized, sometimes harrowing, even gruesome scenesFinn should appeal not only to scholars of 19th century literature but to anyone who cares to sample a forceful debut novel inspired by a now-mythic American story. atlanta journal-consitution What makes bearable this river voyage that never ventures far beyond the banks is the compelling narrative Clinch has created. He writes exceedingly well, not with the immediacy Twain imbued to Huck's voice, but with an impersonal narrators voice that almost perversely refuses to take sides. And the plot is masterful. fredericksburg freelance-star Disturbing and darkly compellingClinch displays impressive imagination and descriptivenessanyone who encounters Finn will long be hautned by this dark and bloody tale. hartford courant Jon Clinch pulls off the near impossible in his new novel, Finn, which brings Huck's dad to life in all his terrible humannessClinch vividly paints the origins of the amazing Huck...powerfully told. winston-salem journal Grippinghe inventively remaps known literary territorythe descriptive riffs are lucent. chicago tribune The best debut so far of 2007. mens journal Inventing Huckleberry Finns father using only the thin scraps of information that Mark Twain provided is a pretty admirable feat, and reading Jon Clinchs first novel provides an almost tactile pleasureClinch clearly respects Twain, but he doesnt feel especially cowed by his inspiration, and some of his inventions qualify as genuine improvements on the original text. washington city paper In this darkly luminous debutClinch lyrically renders the Mississippi Rivers ceaseless flow, while revealing Finns brutal contradictions, his violence, arrogance and self-reproach. Publishers Weekly, STARRED review Bold and deeply disturbing. . . A few incidents duplicate those in Twain, but the novels could not be more different; instead of Hucks unlettered childs voice, we have an omniscient narrative, grave, erudite and rich in the secretions of adult knowledge; terse dialogue acts as an effective counterpoint. All along, Clinchs intent is to probe the nature of evil . . . a memorable debut, likely to make waves. KIRKUS REVIEWS, STARRED review Every fan of Twains masterpiece will want to read this inspired spin-off, which could become an unofficial companion volume. LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED review This is a bold debut that takes a few tentative steps in tandem with the familiar Twain, but then veers off dexterously down a much more insidious, harrowing path. BOOKLIST Jon Clinchs first novel Finnsucceeds wonderfully because its gritty lyricism is at once authentic and originalreminiscent at times of Cormac McCarthythe eloquence of the telling will never make the courageous reader wish for a gentler touch. Like any appealing novel, Finn achieves the force of a dream with fascinating actions, indelible characters and spellbinding language. Its author is wily, astute and wise Finn is a challenging and rewarding exploration of the suffering human heart. From the ominous shadow that was Pap Finn, Clinch has fashioned an unforgettable, twisted man and a marvelous novel. ROANOKE TIMES Next month Clinch makes his publishing debut with Finn, taking up where Mark Twain left Mr. Finn 120 years ago: dead in a room surrounded by such mysterious oddities as a wooden leg, women's underclothing, and two black cloth masks. Its a great read. Knoxville News Sentinel From the Hardcover edition.


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⚡️Book Title : Finn
⚡Book Author : Jon Clinch
⚡Page : 320 pages
⚡Published March 11th 2008 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published January 1st 2007)

Finn

In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literatures most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finns father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twains classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own. Finn sets a tragic figure loose in a landscape at once familiar and mythic. It begins and ends with a lifeless bodyflayed and stripped of all identifying marksdrifting down the Mississippi. The circumstances of the murder, and the secret of the victims identity, shape Finns story as they will shape his life and his death. Along the way Clinch introduces a cast of unforgettable characters: Finns terrifying father, known only as the Judge; his sickly, sycophantic brother, Will; blind Bliss, a secretive moonshiner; the strong and quick-witted Mary, a stolen slave who becomes Finns mistress; and of course young Huck himself. In daring to re-create Huck for a new generation, Clinch gives us a living boy in all his human complexitynot an icon, not a myth, but a real child facing vast possibilities in a world alternately dangerous and bright. Finn is a novel about race; about paternity in its many guises; about the shame of a nation recapitulated by the shame of one absolutely unforgettable family. Above all, Finn reaches back into the darkest waters of Americas past to fashion something compelling, fearless, and new. Praise for Finn A brave and ambitious debut novel It stands on its own while giving new life and meaning to Twains novel, which has been stirring passions and debates since 1885 triumph of imagination and graceful writing. Bookstores and libraries shelve novels alphabetically by authors names. That leaves Clinch a long way from Twain. But on my bookshelves, they'll lean against each other. Id like to think that the cantankerous Twain would welcome the company. USA TODAY RavishingIn the saga of this tormented human being, Clinch brings us a radical (and endlessly debatable) new take on Twains classic, and a stand-alone marvel of a novel. Grade: A. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY A fascinating, original read. people HauntingClinch reimagines Finn in a strikingly original way, replacing Hucks voice with his own magisterial visionone thats nothing short of revelatorySpellbinding. WASHINGTON POST Meticulously craftedMarvelous imaginationThe Finn of Clinchs novel is certainly a racist villain but also psychologically disturbed and disconcertingly compelling. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE From the barest of hints in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Clinch has created a fully believable world inhabited by fully realized characters. Clinch treads dangerous ground in making one of Americas greatest novels his jumping-off point, but he brings it off magnificentlyThe language of this book is one of its great beautiesFinn is far from one-dimensional, and that is another beauty of the book. Clinch has a knack for putting us squarely inside the heads of his characters.Clinch draws as compelling and realistic a picture as any were likely to findFinn stands on its own. The richness of its language, the depth of its characters, the emotional and societal tangles through which they struggle to navigate add up to a portrait of life on the Mississippi as weve never before experienced it. dallas morning news His models may include Cormac McCarthy, and Charles Frazier, whose Cold Mountain also has a voice that sounds like 19th-century American (both formal and colloquial) but has a contemporary terseness and spikiness. This voice couldnt be better suited to a historical novel with a modernist sensibility: Clinchs riverbank Missouri feels postapocalyptic, and his Pap Finn is a crazed yet wily survivor in a polluted landscapeClinchs Pap is a convincingly nightmarish extrapolation of Twains. Hes the mad, lost and dangerous center of a world wed hate to live inor do we still live there?and crave to revisit as soon as we close the book. newsweek I havent been swallowed whole by a work of fiction in some time. Jon Clinchs first novel has done it: sucked me under like I was a rag doll thrown into the wake of a Mississippi steamboatJon 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 Im just happy to have an alchemist like Jon Clinch do it for me. BOOKSLUT Finn strikes its most original chords in its bold imagining of possibilities left unexplored by Huckleberry Finn. austin american-statesman An inspired riff on one of literatures all-time great villainsThis tale of fathers and sons, slavery and freedom, better angels at war with dark demons, is filled with passages of brilliant description, violence that is close-up and terrifyingEverything in this novel could have happened, and we believe it so the great river of stories is too, twisting and turning, inspiring such surprising and inspired riffs and tributes as Finn. new orleans times-picayune A triumph of succesful plotting, convincing characterization and lyrical prose. ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Shocking and charming. Clinch creates a folk-art masterpiece that will delight, beguile and entertain as it does justice to its predecessorIn Finn, Clinch expands the bloodlines and scope of the original story and casts new light on the troubled legacy of our countrys infamous past. new york post In Clinchs retelling, Pap Finn comes vibrantly to life as a complex, mysterious, strangely likable figureClinch includes many sharply realized, sometimes harrowing, even gruesome scenesFinn should appeal not only to scholars of 19th century literature but to anyone who cares to sample a forceful debut novel inspired by a now-mythic American story. atlanta journal-consitution What makes bearable this river voyage that never ventures far beyond the banks is the compelling narrative Clinch has created. He writes exceedingly well, not with the immediacy Twain imbued to Huck's voice, but with an impersonal narrators voice that almost perversely refuses to take sides. And the plot is masterful. fredericksburg freelance-star Disturbing and darkly compellingClinch displays impressive imagination and descriptivenessanyone who encounters Finn will long be hautned by this dark and bloody tale. hartford courant Jon Clinch pulls off the near impossible in his new novel, Finn, which brings Huck's dad to life in all his terrible humannessClinch vividly paints the origins of the amazing Huck...powerfully told. winston-salem journal Grippinghe inventively remaps known literary territorythe descriptive riffs are lucent. chicago tribune The best debut so far of 2007. mens journal Inventing Huckleberry Finns father using only the thin scraps of information that Mark Twain provided is a pretty admirable feat, and reading Jon Clinchs first novel provides an almost tactile pleasureClinch clearly respects Twain, but he doesnt feel especially cowed by his inspiration, and some of his inventions qualify as genuine improvements on the original text. washington city paper In this darkly luminous debutClinch lyrically renders the Mississippi Rivers ceaseless flow, while revealing Finns brutal contradictions, his violence, arrogance and self-reproach. Publishers Weekly, STARRED review Bold and deeply disturbing. . . A few incidents duplicate those in Twain, but the novels could not be more different; instead of Hucks unlettered childs voice, we have an omniscient narrative, grave, erudite and rich in the secretions of adult knowledge; terse dialogue acts as an effective counterpoint. All along, Clinchs intent is to probe the nature of evil . . . a memorable debut, likely to make waves. KIRKUS REVIEWS, STARRED review Every fan of Twains masterpiece will want to read this inspired spin-off, which could become an unofficial companion volume. LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED review This is a bold debut that takes a few tentative steps in tandem with the familiar Twain, but then veers off dexterously down a much more insidious, harrowing path. BOOKLIST Jon Clinchs first novel Finnsucceeds wonderfully because its gritty lyricism is at once authentic and originalreminiscent at times of Cormac McCarthythe eloquence of the telling will never make the courageous reader wish for a gentler touch. Like any appealing novel, Finn achieves the force of a dream with fascinating actions, indelible characters and spellbinding language. Its author is wily, astute and wise Finn is a challenging and rewarding exploration of the suffering human heart. From the ominous shadow that was Pap Finn, Clinch has fashioned an unforgettable, twisted man and a marvelous novel. ROANOKE TIMES Next month Clinch makes his publishing debut with Finn, taking up where Mark Twain left Mr. Finn 120 years ago: dead in a room surrounded by such mysterious oddities as a wooden leg, women's underclothing, and two black cloth masks. Its a great read. Knoxville News Sentinel From the Hardcover edition.

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