HUCK FINN MEETS LITTLE HOUSE
ON THE PRAIRIE – NEW COLLECTION REINTRODUCES A MINNESOTA ORIGINAL
A Long Shout: Selected Writings of Clarence Jonk, is a new collection of the work of one of America’s most iconoclastic writers. In 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Jonk and a friend tried to sail a rudderless houseboat, the Betsy-Nell, down the Mississippi from St. Paul. They made it as far as LaCrosse, WI. The adventure was published as River Journey, an underground classic of life on the River.
A Long Shout offers selections of Jonk’s work, most of them previously unpublished. There are excerpts from River Journey and the sequel, River Journey II, which include odd characters and extraordinary stories of life on the River during the Depression. Remember, Pa? is an anthology of tales about growing up on a farm in western Minnesota as seen through the eyes of a young boy. Crescent Moon is a sequence of love letters Jonk wrote to his wife, Virigina Dunn, before, during and after they got married.
Tales of the Pirate Mice is an experiment in children’s literature that includes photos of dead mice dressed in costumes. Black Lace is a titillating collection of poems that “scandalized” residents of Stillwater, MN.
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