EDITORIAL REVIEW: James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight to a nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his former pitch of exceptional fitness.
James: A Novel
β Scribed by Percival Everett
- Book ID
- 115247579
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 221 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385550369
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, THE SEATTLE TIMES, ELLE, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, AND OPRAH DAILY
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view β’ From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the basis for Cord Jefferson's critically acclaimed film American Fiction
" If you liked Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver, read J ames, by Percival Everett" --The Washington Post
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...
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