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JAMES - PERCIVAL EVERETT

Libro

Editorial	MACMILLAN
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Autor	EVERETT PERCIVAL
ISBN	9781035031269
Peso ( kg )	0,2
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2025
Formato	TAPA RUSTICA
Sinopsis	JAMES 'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle James is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett. The Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson's Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town. So begins a dangerous and transcendent journey along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise. And together, the unlikely pair embark on the most life-changing odyssey of them all . . . A 'Book of the Year' in The Observer, The Times Sunday Times, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Spectator, New Statesman, Independent, TLS, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, i newspaper, The Economist, The Irish Times, The New York Times, TIME and The New Yorker 'Who should read this book? Every single person in the country' - Ann Patchett 'Scorchingly funny and action-packed' - The Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year' 'This may be Everett's best book yet' - Bonnie Garmus 'Playful and viciously comic' - The Telegraph, 'Books of the Year' 'My favourite novel this year' - Salman Rushdie Edad recomendada: Adultos. EVERETT PERCIVAL PERCIVAL EVERETT es Profesor Distinguido de Inglés en la USC. Entre sus libros más recientes se incluyen Dr. No finalista del Premio NBCC de Ficción y ganador del Premio PEN Jean Stein , The Trees finalista del Premio Booker y del Premio PEN Faulkner de Ficción , Telephone finalista del Premio Pulitzer , So Much Blue, Erasure y I Am Not Sidney Poitier. Recibió el Premio Ivan Sandrof a la Trayectoria de la NBCC y el Premio Windham Campbell de la Universidad de Yale. American Fiction, el largometraje basado en su novela Erasure, se estrenó en 2023 y recibió el Premio Óscar al Mejor Guion Adaptado. Vive en Los Ángeles con su esposa, la escritora Danzy Senna, y sus hijos.
Cantidad de páginas	320
Fecha Ingreso	07-07-2025