James
A Novel
by Percival L. Everett
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A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.
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American literature, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2024-04-07, New York Times bestseller, Finn, huckleberry (fictitious character), fiction, Enslaved persons, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Missouri, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, action & adventure, fiction, Fugitive slaves, Race relations, Male friendship, Runaway children, Mississippi River, Action and adventure fiction, Humorous fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, collection:NamePeople
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James: A Novel
2024, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Hardcover
in English
- First Edition
0385550367 9780385550369
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James: The Powerful Reimagining of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the Booker-Shortlisted Author of the Trees
2024-04-11, Pan Macmillan
103503123X 9781035031238
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"Those little bastards were hiding out there in the tall grass."
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