Mark Twain
A Life
by Ron Powers
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Editions of Mark Twain
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Free Pr |
Date 2006 |
Price $3.32 |
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Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio |
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Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Simon & Schuster |
Date 2005 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher Notes
A Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning author of Flags of Our Fathers presents a narrative portrait of Samuel Clemens's life behind his literary persona, in a depiction based on tens of thousands of letters and journal entries that covers his experiences on the Mississippi during the golden age of steamboats, "wild west" Nevada newspaper career, and relationships with such figures as Ulysses S. Grant.
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"[S]omething that has never quite been accomplished before: presenting the totality of the man in his many moods and phases of life....[T]he biographer is lucid and direct while maintaining a steady hand on the tiller of Twain's lief as it courses a twisty path as wide and treacherous as the Mississippi itself. Powers, a wise, if loquacious captain, takes on a wonderful journey from beginning to end."
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