James by Everett, Percival - 2024

New York: Doubleday, 2024. Fourth printing. Hardcover. New/New. 302pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Black boards with title stamped in gilt on spine. "When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, 'James' is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.