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James (Pulitzer Prize Winner): A Novel

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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 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER • A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE LAST 30 YEARS In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg • 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. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Doubleday


Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 19, 2024


Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385550367


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 69


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.7 x 1.12 x 8.5 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #59 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Black & African American Historical Fiction (Books) #1 in Fiction Satire #10 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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  • James is the Man!
Format: Kindle
James: A Novel, Percival Everett Many have attempted to build the sequel to America’s greatest novel, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The following are mentioned in ‘Whatever Happened to Huckleberry Finn’, Robert Long Foreman, The Missouri Review. February 1, 2018. Mark Twain finished two. ‘Tom Sawyer Abroad’ 1894, ‘Tom Sawyer, Detective’ 1896. Unfinished ‘Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians’. ‘The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel’, Norman Lock, Bellevue Library Press 2014. The Raft becomes a time machine. Huck and Jim return from year 2077. Inspired by H.G. Wells as much as Mark Twain. ‘Huck Out West’ Robert Coover, W.W. Norton & Co. 2017. Huck spends time with Lakotah Sioux. Tom is a federal overMarshal. Gold struck in South Dakota. Tom ready to slaughter Indians for Manifest Destiny. The Adventures of Joe Harper, Phong Nguyen, Outtpost19, 2016. Huck meets old Hannibal pal Joe Harper. They make a new friend, Lee, a Chinaman. Story picks up Lee as storyteller. ‘My Jim’, Nancy Rawles, Three Rivers Press, 2005. The story of Sadie Watson, Jim’s wife and mother of their two children. What happens to Sadie after Jim runs away. ‘The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ John Seelye Northwestern University Press 1970 ‘The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ Australian writer Greg Matthews, Crown Publishers; First Edition (December 12, 1988). Mr. Foreman did not include David Carkeet’s, ‘I Been There Before’, Harper Collins, Jan1, 1985. Another Time Machine book as a sequel. Mark Twain reawakens with the return of Haley’s Comet. I wanted to share the titles of sequels to Huck. Several writers realized what many critics pointed out. The book doesn’t seem finished. Mark Twain ‘wrapped up’ pretty much everything in his manuscript. However, there seemed to be something missing. Ernest Hemingway believed Twain wrote too much. He wrote that ‘readers should stop reading when Jim dies’. By that, Hemingway referred to the arrival of the King and the Duke and Jim is ‘sold’ back into slavery. If you stop reading at that point, you miss some iconic humor, and scenes that reveal the further growth in Huck’s character. Mark Twain may have felt pressured to get ‘er done. He worked on the Huck manuscript for seven years. It has been known for a publisher to pressure a writer to finish. Off the commercial success The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the publishers wanted a follow up to capitalize on sales. Seven years was pushing it. But Huck refused to be rushed. Huck grew and developed at his own pace in his own place, inside the mind of Mark Twain. And now, along comes ‘James’, by Percival Everett. I believe ‘James’ is by far the most ambitious sequel ever attempted. In the original, Jim is a full grown man. To stay alive and safe in the world of dangerous world of American racial slavery, Jim learned to master many tricks, many behaviors. He shared that information with his children to enable them to survive. Everett is adamant that James is neither a retelling, nor a sequel. I agree with him. It is not a sequel because the two novels cover the same sequence of events. It is not a retelling because the first is Huck’s story. James has his own story to tell. In both stories, the characters separate for very good reasons. While apart, each must depend on his own wit, their own wiles to survive. People do get hurt based on those individual decisions. They live in dangerous times. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2025 by Dr. Jason Holmes

  • Slavery from a slave's point of view; the horror of authoritarianism
Format: Hardcover
This book is worthy of all the praise that has been heaped on it. It is also very readable. Indeed, I had trouble putting it down. It It provides an excellent insight into slavery and what it was like being a slave and does by having the reader look at life in pre-civil war Missouri and Illinois from the perspective of a slave. The slave’s helplessness in the face of a system designed to crush and control him in every way, points out the horror of authoritarianism when carried out in the extreme. If I have any criticism of the book it is only that the switch from one aspect of the story to the next sometimes take place at breakneck speed. If possible, some of the chapters should have been longer. AIS ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2025 by AIS

  • The world from the rebel slave's perspective
Format: Kindle
This story starts out in an almost familiar way as the story primarily of Huck Finn, but seen from Jim's perspective. It is a boy's adventure on the Mississippi. But then as they are forced to make their respective separate ways, it becomes the story of a desperate but resourceful slave trying to save himself and his family against nearly insurmountable odds. Seeing the injustices heaped upon Jim and other slaves, the reader can only root for Jim to make it to freedom, but the damage done to him and many white people too cannot be so easily undone. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2025 by Amazon Customer

  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Stunning, Soulful Reimagining
Format: Paperback
I don’t even know where to begin with this book—James completely floored me. It’s one of the most powerful, human, and thought-provoking novels I’ve read in a long time. Percival Everett doesn’t just tell a story—he reveals what was hidden all along. We think we know the story of Huck and Jim, but James turns that familiarity on its head in the most brilliant way. This time, we see everything through James’s eyes—his thoughts, his strategies for survival, his sharp wit, his pain, and his hope. He’s no longer a background figure. He’s the center. And he’s unforgettable. What amazed me most was the language—the way Everett writes with such clarity and control, but also with moments of poetry and defiance. There were parts I had to stop and reread, not because they were confusing, but because they were so quietly devastating or quietly triumphant. This isn’t just a novel. It’s a reckoning. It made me think deeply about voice, freedom, and the way stories are told—and who gets to tell them. I finished James and sat still for a while, just taking it all in. It’s that kind of book. Read it. Talk about it. Sit with it. It stays with you. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2025 by YesIAmaPirate

  • "James", a fascinating novel
Format: Hardcover
James has been on the best sellers list for ages. It deserves its wide interest by many people. It starts out as a rewrite of "Huckleberry Finn" from the slave's perspective but soon turns into his own story. It's an excellent book about that time period and the attitudes of the people. However, it never preaches or beats the reader over the head. It's an adventure and friendship story with unexpected events and twists. It's well imagined and written. I can't imagine any reader not fascinated by every page right up to the end. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2025 by Norma Hayes

  • No wonder this novel won the Pulitzer Prize
Format: Hardcover
I just finished reading JAMES this morning. The novel does deserve the Pulitzer Prize because of its writing as well as the story. In a fast reading 300 pages (I read it over the weekend), Everett tells not only an exciting story but somehow manages to show the reader the horrors of slavery. I was a bit put off in the beginning because this book starts at the eve of the Civil War and Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in 1885. However, I believe the author meant to use Huck Finn almost as a side character although Huck was in most of the scenes. I learned a lot and felt like Percival Everett’s was similar to Ernest Hemingway: concise, clear and emotional. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2025 by Louise D. Somes

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