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Channeling Mark Twain

Channeling Mark Twain

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ISBN10: 0812967496
ISBN13: 9780812967494
Publisher: Random House
Published: Aug 19 2008
Pages: 281
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Fresh out of graduate school, Holly Mattox is a young, newly married, and spirited poet who moves to New York City from Minnesota in the early seventies. Hoping to share her passion for words and social justice, she decides to teach poetry at the Women's House of Detention on Rikers Island, only minutes from Manhattan. There Holly meets a woman who will change her life forever: Polly Lyle Clement, an inmate who claims that she is a descendant of Mark Twain and is capable of channeling his voice. As Holly is caught up in the drama of her students' lives, her identification with their despair leads her to lose all perspective on the nature of justice. And when she is drawn into an affair with a fellow poet, Holly risks all that is familiar and conventional in her life.

Praise for Channeling Mark Twain

National Book Award Finalist

Muske-Dukes takes vast chances with both her voice and her subject matter, and ends up with a work strongly based on reality, but unquestionably elevated into the wondrous realm of art.

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