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Finn.(Brief article)(Book review)
This harrowing debut novel imagines the life of Huckleberry Finn's father, known simply as Finn, an irredeemable savage perpetually drunk on forty-rod whiskey. The son of a vitriolically racist Illinois judge, Finn subsists by running trotlines in the Mississippi and inhabits a riverside house "fit only for dying in." The plot develops from his attraction to black women, including a ...
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