Publisher's Note In Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn, Tom Quirk traces the history of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its inception in 1876 to its problematic presence in today's American culture. By approaching Twain's novel from several quite different perspectives, Quirk reveals how the author's imagination worked and why this novel has affected so many people for so long and in so many curious ways.
Industry Reviews "[This] richly speculative and lucid study confronts the reader with new lights and sidelights on those central artifacts of American culture: Huckleberry Finn, Huck, Jim, and the man who created them." Bloom