Huck Out West is not only a credible follow up to Twain's best known work, but relevant to and revealing of the times we live in. Huck and Tom run off to the West, supposedly to escape "sivilization". They scout for both the North and South, run for the Pony Express and generally keep themselves moving across the frontier, but Tom continually seeks recognition and, indeed, more civility. He and Huck part ways leaving Huck to tell us the story of how they came to the West with Jim, sold him back into slavery, lived among the Indians and had various run ins and run froms the US Army. Huck is nostalgic for the days spent in Tom's company, but when they are again reunited, he finds that despite his lack of education or "sivilization", he no longer relies on Tom and can see him for what he has become. Robert Coover, I believe Mr. Twain would appreciate your sensibility.

I started this book with the hopes that it would grab me like the Twain stories did. I just kept thinking "Mark Twain is dead. He did not write this" so all I was doing was comparing. I could not enjoy it.

I received a free electronic copy of this novel from Netgalley, Robert Coover, and W. W. Norton and Company in exchange for an honest opinion. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me.

Robert Coover has done a wonderful job of growing up Huck Fenn. Huck remains true to his nature and the model lain out by Samuel Clemens in The Adventures of .... Tom as well grows up, but our hopes that he will not continue on his downward spiral are sorely disappointed. This is an excellent tale, told well, and will keep you laughing for days.