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Finn
Finn 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.
Praise for Finn
"A brave and ambitious debut novel… It stands on its own while giving new life and meaning to Twain's novel, which has been stirring passions and debates since 1885…a triumph of imagination and graceful writing."
– USA TODAY
"Ravishing…In the saga of this tormented human being, Clinch brings us a radical new take on Twain's classic, and a stand-alone marvel of a novel. Grade: A."
– ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Spellbinding…Clinch reimagines Finn in a strikingly original way, replacing Huck's voice with his own magisterial vision–one that's nothing short of revelatory."
– WASHINGTON POST
"This voice couldn't be better suited to a historical novel with a modernist sensibility: Clinch's riverbank Missouri feels postapocalyptic, and his Pap Finn is a crazed yet wily survivor in a polluted landscape."
– NEWSWEEK
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Kings of the Earth
Together since birth on a hardscrabble farm, the three Proctor brothers work and live side by side—until one morning, when only two of them wake up. In KINGS OF THE EARTH, the people of an upstate New York town raise their voices one by one—to sort out the differences between death by natural causes, mercy killing, and murder.
Jon reports that many elements of the novel spring from his upstate roots—family stories, local customs, well-known tragedies—and that the opportunity to revisit those times and places has meant the world to him.
Kings of the Earth will be published by Random House and Recorded Books on July 6, 2010.
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