Penrod

Summary: "...PENROD: HIS COMPLETE STORY amasses a portrait of an American boyhood that, for richness of detail and sheer vividness of recollection, has few equals....In addition, Penrod's environs have a tactile and often olfactory reality that any novelist--of adult no less than children's fiction--might envy....The benign ghost of Mark Twain flutters over the entire enterprise and Penrod's nearest literary kin may be Tom Sa...wyer." [read more]