On Thursday, March 28, at 7 p.m., Exile in Bookville and the Historic Studebaker Theater welcomed a crowd eager to engage as Percival Everett, alongside author Gabriel Bump, delved into his latest novel, “James.” A dynamic encounter unfolded as Everett met Bump, who was thrilled to enga...
作者:James《詹姆斯》 作者:Percival Everett 简介:A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orlea...
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's latest honor comes from the country's public libraries. On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett's “James” was this year's winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, which includes a $5,000 cash ...
“One of the wonderful things about libraries is that when you're looking for one book, it's surrounded by other books that may not be connected to it. That's what you get (online) with links, but (in libraries) no one's decided what the links are." Everett's lates...
Percival Everett's latest honor comes from the country’s public libraries. On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett’s “James” was this year’s winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, which includes a $5,000 c
If you've never read a book by Percival Everett you truly are missing out。 He is turning out book after book that just makes you expand your mind on race and history in America。 His latest and greatest is called James (so am I so how could I not love this book!) From the very...
NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards. The long list of 10 also includes Rachel Kushner's innovative thriller...
A deeply affecting story about the lengths to which loss and grief will drive us,Telephoneis a Percival Everett novel we should have seen coming all along, one that will shake you to the core as it asks questions about the power of narrative to save. ...
Despite winning various prizes over the last 30 years, Percival Everett’s name had never crossed many readers’ desks until The Trees was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. Filled with originality and wit, his latest work James is a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic Huckleberry Finn fro...
Everett's latest novel,"James,"is a re-telling of Mark Tain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," from the point-of-view of Huck's enslaved friend, Jim. In it, language is a running joke, but also dangerous. The enslaved people, Jim in particular, speak in what would commonly be...