Q. Finally, what do you think Oscar would have wanted the biggest takeaway for the reader to be?
To be transported--not only to another era and place, but to the depths of one’s soul. And one thing else: Oscar was a romantic. He was a soulful man. He was an adoring spouse. (I was very fortunate to have been his wife.) In this novel he wanted to convey a core belief of his: that a woman’s love for her husband made all the difference in his chances for true peace and happiness. Dorothy Tennant, in a way, saved Stanley. And Livy was Twain’s spiritual rock, physically frail though she was.
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CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Author’s Note
Epigraph
Part One
Dorothy’s Question
The Cabinet Manuscript
On Twain and Stanley Meeting Again
Stanley in Love
Huck Finn in Africa
His Return
Their Wedding
Part Two
Meeting Mr. Clemens
With Mr. Twain
Portraits with Twain
Twain’s Sadness and Other Events
On Psychics
Part Three
Letters 1897–99
The Country Life
Furze Hill, Easter Weekend, 1900
Stanley’s Later Days
Clemens in That Time
The Cabinet Manuscript and Oxford
Afterword by Lori Marie Carlson-Hijuelos
Also by Oscar Hijuelos
Reading Group Guide
Newsletters
Copyright
Copyright
This book is a work of historical fiction. Names of nonhistorical persons or events are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance of such nonhistorical persons or events to actual ones is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 2015 by The Estate of Oscar Hijuelos
Reading Group Guide copyright © 2015 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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