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Twain & Stanley enter paradise

Twain & Stanley enter paradise

Book On CD 2015

Follows famed 19th century journalist-explorer Henry Stanley, his wife, the painter Dorothy Tennant, and Stanley's long friendship with Mark Twain, as they venture to Cuba in search of Stanley's father. Told through a fictitious manuscript and imagined correspondence between Stanley, Tennant, and Twain. The manuscript, in the works for decades, was found by Hijuelos's widow after his death.