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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"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Everett, Percival , author

Contributors:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

James: a novel [by Everett, P.]

Related Works:

Based on: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [by Twain, M.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: James [by Everett, P.] (First edition; New York : Doubleday, [2024] — ISBN 9780385550376; LCCN 2023012818)

Related Series:

McNaughton lease books

Subjects:

Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) — Fiction

Fugitive slaves — Fiction

Race relations — Fiction

Male friendship — Fiction

Runaway children — Fiction

Mississippi River — Fiction

Missouri — Fiction

Friendships

Homosociality

Men's friendships

Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)

Fugitive slaves

Race relations

Male friendship

Runaway children

Mississippi River

United States

Missouri

Genres:

Historical fiction

Fiction

Physical Description:

302 pages ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

PS3555.V34 J36 2024

ISBNs:

9780385550369 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023012817

OCLC Numbers:

1385322570

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: BRD2023012817