Cormac McCarthy and the ghost of Huck Finn

"This volume discusses the intertextual connections between Mark Twain's iconic novel and eight works by author Cormac McCarthy. By chronicling the scholarly comparisons between Twain and McCarthy and exploring the echoes of Twain and Huck Finn in McCarthy's writing, this study reveals how McCarthy has not only absorbed Twain's tradition, but transformed it"--Provided by publisher.