Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; Second Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: William Morrow, 1997, New York
ISBN: 068812769X

[Book #12771]

An attractive First Edition/Second Printing in Fine condition in alike dust jacket. Very minimal wear to book boards and minute bumping on dust jacket corners. Cover lightly rubbed. Crisp pages, unblemished text, and firm binding allow book to be considered a fine copy;

Andrew Hoffman explores the darker side of Samuel Clemens in this biography about America's most beloved humorist. Clemens himself was quoted as saying that he had grown to detest his Mark Twain persona or rather that it was terribly hard to live up to the good-hearted overviews of his alter-ego. Hoffman's in-depth study of Clemen's early relationships with his own family, especially those with his father, provide fertile ground for theorizing about the two sides of the American icon and how and why the split occurred. Rces that shaped