His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight lessons. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane-a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother. Language eng Summary 'In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston 'Huck' Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Label Cloudmaker Title Cloudmaker Statement of responsibility Malcolm Brooks Creator In Brooks's signature 'lush, breathtaking prose' (San Francisco Chronicle) and with a winking nod to the Sam Clemens who inspired its hero's nickname, Cloudmaker is a boisterous, heartfelt novel that confirms its author as a powerful voice in American literature'. And then there's the matter of the watch, which it turns out the dead man's cohort of gangsters would very much like back. As his airplane takes shape, and the young cousins avidly follow Amelia Earhart's voyage around the equator, so too does Huck's understanding of the world and his place in it-in particular the tension between heaven and earth, age and youth, tradition and the coming future, that stresses the bonds of both his and Annelise's families.

Summary 'In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston 'Huck' Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch.

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