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James: A Novel

✍ 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.

✦ 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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