Author Jon Clinch makes his debut with this extraordinary novel that tackles issues of race, slavery, and paternity while delivering a fully fleshed rendering of one of the most notorious characters in the history of American literature: Huckleberry Finn's father.It was more than a century ago that Mark Twain left the notoriously violent Finn dead, surrounded by such oddities as a wooden leg and women's undergarments. As we get to know this troubled man, we meet the people who shape Finn's life: his own frightening father, the Judge, his sickly brother Will, the hermit Bliss, and his lover Mary, a former slave.
Expanding on one of the great American novels, Finn is a strikingly original tale that promises to be a classic in its own right and announces Jon Clinch as a major new talent.
