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James

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
By Percival Everett
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Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024! Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees. James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that... Read More
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Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024. A heartbreaking and powerful retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s friend, the enslaved Jim.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024! From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Trees comes a heartbreaking and powerful retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck's friend, the enslaved Jim.

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Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024!

Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees.

James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light.

The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson's Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town.

Thus begins a dangerous and transcendent journey by raft along the Mississippi River, toward the elusive promise of free states and beyond. As James and Huck begin to navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise.

With rumours of a brewing war, James must face the burden he carries: the family he is desperate to protect and the constant lie he must live. And together, the unlikely pair must face the most dangerous odyssey of them all...

From the shadows of Huck Finn's mischievous spirit, Jim emerges to reclaim his voice, defying the conventions that have consigned him to the margins.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035031245

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 March 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pan Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 394g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Percival Everett is the author of over thirty published works, including Zulus, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Assumption, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Telephone, The Trees, Dr. No and James. A Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Everett has won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Academy Award in Literature, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Fiction. In 2022, The Trees was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Percival Everett lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

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