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Praise for Finn.

"A brave and ambitious debut novel… It stands on its own while giving new life and meaning to Twain's novel, which has been stirring passions and debates since 1885…a triumph of imagination and graceful writing."
– USA Today

"Ravishing…In the saga of this tormented human being, Clinch brings us a radical new take on Twain's classic, and a stand-alone marvel of a novel. Grade: A."
– Entertainment Weekly

"Spellbinding…Clinch reimagines Finn in a strikingly original way, replacing Huck's voice with his own magisterial vision–one that's nothing short of revelatory."
– Washington Post

"This voice couldn't be better suited to a historical novel with a modernist sensibility: Clinch's riverbank Missouri feels postapocalyptic, and his Pap Finn is a crazed yet wily survivor in a polluted landscape."
– Newsweek

Awards for Finn.

Finn is an American Library Association Notable Book, and was named one of the year's top novels by the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Christian Science Monitor. It was also shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle's first-ever Best Recommended List and the Sargent First Novel Prize.

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Huck has "The Raftsmen's Passage."
Now Finn has "The Dog."

Just before Huckleberry Finn went to press, Mark Twain's publisher asked him to remove an episode from near the start of Chapter 16. The deleted pages showed Huck eavesdropping on a group of raftsmen by night, and over time became known as "The Raftsmen's Passage." The material appeared in Life on the Mississippi, and was first restored to Huck in a 1944 edition.

Now, a missing piece of Finn has surfaced. Its provenance is different from "The Raftsmen's Passage," though; instead of being omitted from the original novel, it arrived afterward. Titled "The Dog," it's available here as a free pdf.

Finn takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature’s most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn’s father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twain’s classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own.