James : a novel

Author/Creator:

Everett, Percival, author

Publication/Creation:

New York : Doubleday, [2024]

Format:

Book

Edition:

First edition.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

James : a novel / Percival Everett

Related/Included Titles:

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Action and adventure fiction
Humorous fiction
Historical fiction
Novels

Subjects:

Finn, Huckleberry(Fictitious character)--Fiction
Fugitive enslaved persons--Fiction
Race relations--Fiction
Male friendship--Fiction
Runaway children--Fiction
Friendships
Homosociality
Men's friendships
Mississippi River--Fiction
Missouri--Fiction

Description/Summary

Summary:

"From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jim's agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a "cult literary icon" (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

302 pages ; 22 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937888691302486

ISBN:

9780385550369
0385550367
9780593686867
0593686861

OCLC Number:

1385322570

Barcode:

050000106704
010003612356
010003589028