2024年3月19日 · James by Percival Everett is a literary gem that takes readers on a thought provoking journey through the life of its protagonist, Jim. Everett’s writing is sharp, witty, and deeply engaging, making it easy to get lost in the layers of meaning he weaves into the narrative.

2024年3月19日 · 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...

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. The novel won the 2024 Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.

2024年3月19日 · Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.

2024年9月16日 · Percival Everett lives in Los Angeles, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize twice – he was shortlisted for The Trees in 2022 and for James in 2024 – and is the author of over 30 published works.

2024年3月11日 · Percival Everett’s majestic new novel, “James,” goes several steps further. Everett flips the perspective on the events in “Huckleberry Finn.” He gives us the story as a coolly electric...

2024年3月12日 · Percival Everett’s new novel imagines Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s enslaved sidekick, Jim. But to call James a retelling would be an injustice. Everett sends Mark...

2024年4月10日 · James is Percival Everett’s retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of Jim, the runaway slave that travels with Huck down the Mississippi in the novel.

2024年3月29日 · James—the latest novel from the prodigious (and finally widely-read) Percival Everett—is many things: a relentless code-switching satire, a meditation on the constructedness of racial identity, a love letter to the written word, and, yes, I suppose, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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