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James. Black paper covered boards. - 2024

by EVERETT, Percival

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New York: Doubleday, 2024. Signed on the title page by Percival Everett. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize. Winner of the 2024 National Book Award. Number 50 on the New York Times Reader's List of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2024. Finalist for the 2024 Booker Prize.

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  • Title James.
  • Author EVERETT, Percival
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition / First printing.
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 303 pages.
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Doubleday,, New York:
  • Publication date 2024.
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 19188
  • ISBN 9780385550369 / 0385550367
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.41 x 5.76 x 1.25 in (21.36 x 14.63 x 3.18 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects Male friendship, Race relations
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023012817
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Alternative History Fiction; Fiction

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This seller has earned a 4.46 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
4.46 / 5 (413748 total reviews)

Readers widely hailed Percival Everett’s novel as a daring, timely reimagining of Twain’s classic that recenters the story on Jim—now James—and interrogates race, language, and identity through code-switching and the mask of dialect. Many found it propulsive, emotionally searing, and thematically rich, with sharp social critique and an ending that feels cathartic. The book’s critical and prize success reinforced the sense that it revitalizes a cornerstone of American literature. However, reactions were not unanimous: several readers said the humor was oversold and the tone far grimmer than advertised; some saw James as a satirical construct rather than a fully rounded character; others criticized the portrayal of women and the on-page sexual violence. The philosophical dream debates, a late plot twist linking Huck and James, and pacing that retraces Twain before swerving into blockbuster-style revenge divided opinion. Many recommended familiarity with the original to fully appreciate the choices here.

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powerfulthought-provokingdarkpropulsivesubversivedivisivesatiricalemotionally wrenchingquick readnot as funny as billed

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From the publisher

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view - In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg

KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, LA Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, TIME, and more.

"Genius"--The Atlantic - "A masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while also being a major achievement on its own."--Chicago Tribune - "A provocative, enlightening literary work of art."--The Boston Globe - "Everett's most thrilling novel, but also his most soulful."--The New York Times

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. 

Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2024, Page 39
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2024, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2024, Page 66
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 10/01/2023, Page 6
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/04/2023, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 12/19/2024, Page 0

About the author

PERCIVAL EVERETT is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent books include Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University, and the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children

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