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Mar 19, 2024 · Percival Everett brilliantly gave a voice to one of literature's most well-known characters, Jim a runaway slave who prefers to go by James. James the person, is the exact opposite of how the world perceives him. He's a wise sage, who's nihilistic but also carries a profound tenderness for his fellow humans.
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Mar 19, 2024 · James: A Novel. Hardcover – March 19, 2024. by Percival Everett (Author) 4.7 9,412 ratings. Editors' pick Best Books of the Year So Far 2024. See all formats and editions. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the ...
Mar 11, 2024 · JAMES | By Percival Everett | Doubleday | 303 pp. | $28. Dwight Garner has been a book critic for The Times since 2008, and before that was an editor at the Book Review for a decade.
Mar 19, 2024 · Percival Everett has accomplished more than humanizing a marginalized voice. He has, once again, delivered a seminal work of literary reparation.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Everett’s James isn’t out to displace Twain’s book. It’s carrying out a bolder, more ingenuous, and, characteristic of its author, more subversive agenda ...
James is a novel by author Percival Everett published by Doubleday in 2024. The novel is a re-imagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain but told from the perspective of Huckleberry's friend on his travels, Jim , who is an escaped slave.
“Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book. Unforgiving and compassionate, beautiful and brutal, a tragedy and a farce, this brilliant novel rewrites literary history to let us hear the voices it has long suppressed.”
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Mar 19, 2024 · Percival Everett's retelling of Mark Twain's 1885 classic focuses on Huck's enslaved companion. James is a tale so inspired, you won't be able to imagine reading the original without it.
