Huck Out West, Robert Coover
Huck Out West, Robert Coover
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Huck Out West
A Novel

Author: Robert Coover

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/10/2017

Synopsis

At the end of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and his pal Tom Sawyer "light out for the Territory" to avoid "sivilization." In Robert Coover's vision of their Western adventures, Huck and Tom start by joining the famous but short-lived Pony Express. Tom becomes something of a hero and decides he'd rather own civilization than escape it, returning east to get a wife and a law degree. But Huck stays alone in the Territory; he guides wagon trains, scouts for both sides in the war, wrangles horses on a Chisholm Trail cattle drive, joins a bandit gang, finds an ill-fated pal in an army fort and another in a Lakota Sioux tribe, and eventually finds himself in the Black Hills just ahead of the 1876 Gold Rush. In the course of his adventures, Huck reunites with Tom, Jim, and Becky Thatcher and faces some hard truths and harder choices.

About Robert Coover

Robert Coover is the author, most recently, of Huck Out West, among many other works including The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.; The Public Burning; and Ghost Town. He is a pioneer in the field of electronic writing and ran the International Writers Project for endangered writers at Brown University. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on March 23, 2017

I knew I had to read this book when I first heard about it in The New Yorker last September while reading an interview with the author, Robert Coover. In that article, Deborah Treisman asked Coover what inspired him to write Huck Out West -- to which he replied "Twain was a somewhat racist white bo......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on May 06, 2025

I both liked and disliked this one. I liked the character development, especially because I feel like I hit the nail on the head with my review of The Adventures Huckleberry Finn when I called Tom Sawyer a Wall Street bro (or in today's terms, he could also be a tech bro), and I said Finn could be s......more

Goodreads review by Simon on February 15, 2017

'Tom is always living in a story he's read in a book so he knows what happens next, and sometimes it does. For me it ain't like that. Something happens and then something else happens, and I'm in trouble again.' A while later, 'I ain't nobody.' Huck Finn, yeah THAT one river rat hooligan from back o......more

Goodreads review by Carol on March 15, 2017

I'm giving this book two stars out of respect. Robert Coover is over eighty years old, and he was writing classic short stories like "The Magic Poker" and "The Baby Sitter" when I was still wetting the bed. Unfortunately, this weak-ass fan-fiction ripoff stinks just like what I used to do in bed. The......more

Goodreads review by Dax on January 09, 2020

Coover succeeds in channeling his inner Twain. 'Huck Out West' is a fun yarn about the loss of innocence in the American West. It's a quick read that actually has a lot to say. Immensely quotable as well. As some of my other gr friends have noted, Coover's dialogue and characters (really, caricature......more

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