James
11 April 2024
Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
Selected as one of the top 12 reads of 2024 by The Times and Sunday Times
'This is the work of an American master at the peak of his powers' — Financial Times
An enthralling and ferociously funny reimagining of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of the enslaved Jim. Written by Booker Prize-shortlisted Percival Everett, his...
Details
11 April 2024
320 pages
9781035031238
Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
James has the potential to become a classic . . . thrilling, bold and profoundThe Sunday Times
Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book. Unforgiving and compassionate, beautiful and brutal, a tragedy and a farce, this brilliant novel rewrites literary history to let us hear the voices it has long suppressedHernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust
James is funny and horrifying, brilliant and riveting. In telling the story of Jim instead of Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett delivers a powerful, necessary corrective to both literature and history. I found myself cheering both the writer and his hero. Who should read this book? Every single person in the countryAnn Patchett, bestselling author of Tom Lake
Pure brilliance. Funny, wise, gracious; this may be Everett's best book yetBonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry