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Central Branch | Fiction Evere | On loan until: 21/Mar/25 |
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Mountain Grove Branch | Fiction Evere | On loan until: 19/Mar/25 |
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Parham Branch | Fiction Evere | At another location |
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Sydenham Branch | Fiction Evere | In transit |
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Cataraqui Centre | Fiction Evere | In transit |
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Cataraqui Centre | Fiction Evere | On loan until: 31/Mar/25 |
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Comments and Reviews
Summary & Details
Full Record Details Table
Title Statement | James: a novel / Percival Everett. |
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Author | Everett, Percival |
Additional Contributors | Twain, Mark,1835-1910 |
Publication | New York: Doubleday,[2024]©2024 |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 302 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780385550369 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07326523 |
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"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Fugitive slaves--Fiction |
Male friendship--Fiction | |
Race relations--Fiction | |
Runaway children--Fiction | |
By Name | Finn, Huckleberry |
By Location | Mississippi River--Fiction |
Missouri--Fiction | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |
Satirical literature | |
Novels |