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    OLDIE NOVEL OF THE MONTH Twain again

    May 01, 2024 3 minutes

    PAUL BAILEY

    James

    By Percival Everett

    Mantle £20

    The title of Percival Everett’s typically inventive and thoughtful new novel alerts the reader to its bold intentions.

    James, the narrator and principal character in James, has been known since the 1880s as Jim. He’s the slave owned by the God-fearing Miss Watson who befriends Huck Finn in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – probably the best-loved of Mark Twain’s books.

    Twain’s Jim is superstitious and uneducated; Everett’s James is neither,

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