In the book, which may be his best yet, the story of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is narrated by the enslaved character Jim rather than Huck ... he puts pencil to paper, ...

But although it takes up some basic plot movements, characters, and scenes from “Huck Finn,” and remains ... physical harm — a purloined pencil. Jim begins writing himself “into being.” ...

JEFFREY BROWN: A trip down the Mississippi River in 19th century America taken by a young white boy, Huck Finn, and an enslaved Black man named Jim running ... "With a pencil gained at horrific ...

he goes on the run as “Jim”, with the resourceful young white boy, Huck Finn. The same characters appear in both texts, including Tom Sawyer (Huck’s best friend), the town judge and the duke ...

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of America’s greatest ... Everett retells Twain’s narrative from inside Jim’s head rather than Huck’s. Most of the events are the ...

Telling the story of the two main characters of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim, from Jim’s point of ... James, using a stolen pencil and notebook, begins writing his autobiography; this, it ...

His latest, “James,” also playful and resonant, is a rewrite of a deeply controversial classic, Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... River, Jim is joined by Huck ...

When Everett thought of writing Jim’s side of Huck Finn, he was surprised that no one had ever delivered that story before. The two fugitives are separated for a long section of Twain’s novel ...

Catch up quick: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" tells the story of Huck, a young, uneducated white boy, and Jim, an escaped slave, as they travel together down the Mississippi River on a raft.

“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... of Jim, the novel’s enslaved runaway. The pair’s adventures on the raft as it twisted down the Mississippi River were largely, from Huck’s perspective ...

Everett centers 'James' on the enslaved character Jim from Mark Twain's 1884 picaresque novel. Percival Everett’s acclaimed reimagining of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn won ...

His latest, “James,” also playful and resonant, is a rewrite of a deeply controversial classic, Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... River, Jim is joined by Huck ...