James (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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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 – In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg

“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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Percival Everett
Published: 03/19/2024
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385550369
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 1.25″ H x 8.41″ L x 5.76″ W

Award: 2025 ALA Notable Books Winner – Fiction
Award: 0000 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner – Fiction
Award: 2024 Man Booker Prize Finalist – Fiction
Award: 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner – Fiction

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