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November 15, 2003
This novel's central character is not the eponymous Pudd'nhead but Roxy, a mostly white slave in 1830s Missouri who is so desperate to rescue her baby son from slavery that she switches him with the baby of her widowed master. She then watches her natural son become a spoiled and heartless slaveowner and eventually a criminal. The climax comes in a spectacular murder trial in which lawyer Pudd'nhead exposes Roxy's terrible secret. This is not Twain's best work but is worth listening to because it is his most direct attack on slavery and ideas about "race." Moreover, in Roxy he drew his strongest female character; it is also one of the first books to use fingerprints as a plot device. Michael Prichard's narration is competent, but the material calls for a reading with greater passion.-Kent Rasmussen, Thousand Oaks, CA
Copyright 2003 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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