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Tom Sawyer would rather have fun than go to school

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House of Meetings, Martin Amis wood Tom Sawyer would rather haveThe brothers' fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the sole survivor, the reverberations continue into the new century.