Adams has created authentically American voices on both sides of our most terrible conflict and has traced to their sources the most intractable of U. S. paradoxes, including the Westward Expansion, slavery, miscegenation, agricultural versus urbanized society, North versus South, and commercial against patriotic interests.
Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of the book is a voice at once contemporary and authentic to the Missouri of the 1860s. The ever-changing aspects of Americas turn from rural to urban, from slavery to freedom resonate today. We see in Adamss Huck and Tom not only Twains America, but our own, and the thunderous collisions of the ongoing ominous tragedy we still can feel today.
This exceptional novel will delight readers and recall why were proud however
silently, however provisionally to be Americans.
Adams has created authentically American voices on both sides of our most terrible conflict and has traced to their sources the most intractable of U. S. paradoxes, including the Westward Expansion, slavery, miscegenation, agricultural versus urbanized society, North versus South, and commercial against patriotic interests.
Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of the book is a voice at once contemporary and authentic to the Missouri of the 1860s. The ever-changing aspects of Americas turn from rural to urban, from slavery to freedom resonate today. We see in Adamss Huck and Tom not only Twains America, but our own, and the thunderous collisions of the ongoing ominous tragedy we still can feel today.
This exceptional novel will delight readers and recall why were proud however
silently, however provisionally to be Americans.