Boyhood is the most familiar province of Mark Twain\'s fiction, but a reader doesn\'t have to look far to find feminine territory-and it\'s not the perfectly neat and respectable place where you\'d expect to see Becky Thatcher.
This is a fictional world where rather than polishing their domestic arts and waiting for marriage proposals, Girls are fighting battles, riding stallions, rescuing boys from rivers, cross-dressing, debating religion, hunting, squaring off against angry bulls, or, in what.
Boyhood is the most familiar province of Mark Twain\'s fiction, but a reader doesn\'t have to look far to find feminine territory-and it\'s not the perfectly neat and respectable place where you\'d expect to see Becky Thatcher
