<DIV>?In this surreal and otherworldly river journey through time, Norman Lock transports Huck Finn down the Mississippi and deep into America’s history?and future. Elegant and imaginative, <I>The Boy in His Winter</I> is a tale that’s as hypnotic as it is profound.” ?<B>GILBERT KING</B>, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <I>Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America</I><BR><BR>?I read Norman Lock’s <I>The Boy in His Winter</I> with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain’s original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy?and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America’s greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive.” ?<B>DAVID OSHINSKY</B>, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <I>Polio: An American Story</I> and <I>Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice</I><BR><BR>Launched into existence by Mark Twain in 1835, Huck Finn and Jim 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 the Native American nations, and the electrification of a continent. Huck, who finally comes of age when he’s washed up on shore during Hurricane Katrina, narrates the story as an older and wiser man in 2077, revealing our nation’s past, present, and future as Mark Twain could never have dreamed it.<BR><BR><I>The Boy in His Winter</I> is a tour-de-force work of imagination, beauty, and courage that re-envisions a great American literary classic for our time.<BR><BR><B>Norman Lock</B>, a recipient of the Aga Kahn Prize from <I>The Paris Review</I> and a writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, is the author of many works of fiction, including <I>Love Among the Particles.</I> He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.<BR></DIV>