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At the end of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory." In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys do just that, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war.

They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out...

Though Coover's message is bleak, his delivery is wonderfully comic (Bharati Mukherjee, The Globe & Mail (Toronto)) in this spare, tantalizing, and perfect book, named by Daphne Merkin in The New Yorker as one of her favorite S/M books.

This volume brings together three early novels by John Hawkes. The Lime Twig is set in the underworld of postwar London; Second Skin is a tale of suicide and new life on two mythical islands; and Travesty is a monologue on fear and eroticism that takes place during a drive at night.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across...

Zum 75. Geburtstag von Art Spiegelman, dem Schöpfer von »Maus«: »Eine coole Noir-Dystopie« Clemens Meyer

Die Zeiten, als ein Mord eine große Sache war, sind endgültig vorbei. In einer Welt der Roboter, Drohnen und fliegenden Autos geht ein altmodischer Bulle auf Streife.

2020 hatte Robert Coover gerade eine Geschichte um den letzten New Yorker Streifenpolizisten geschrieben - und bat Art Spiegelman, sie zu illustrieren. So entstand inmitten der Pandemie ein Buch über die Zukunft - und eine Liebeserklärung an den Comic von einem seiner größten...