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`Dangerous Water' takes readers on trip to Mark Twain's real world

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19990627
Author:GARRET CONDON

Dangerous Water A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain. By Ron Powers. Basic Books. $24. Visit Hannibal, Mo., and you immediately experience the confusion between Mark Twain's life and his art. Here are the statues of Tom and Huck. So lifelike! The guide at the Mark Twain Cave points visitors to the underground caverns "where Tom and Becky were trapped."

All casual readers of Twain are stuck, in a sense, on a tour bus in Hannibal. We think we know Mark Twain the boy: the whitewashed fence, Aunt Polly and the "bulrushers." What we've absorbed is the world Twain fashioned from his ...

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