Meta fiction can be so "on purpose" and coy ... but this novel, picking up the thread of THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, and made it into an astonishing, brilliant kite of what could be wished for, what could be true ... everything a story should be!
'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha
James by Percival Everett is a profound and ferociously funny meditation on identity, belonging and the sacrifices we make to protect the ones we love, which reimagines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. From the author of The Trees, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction.
The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new…
This is a novel I absolutely hated to finish ... it accomplished that lofty goal of creating a character who was distinctly and appallingly unlikeable but who obsesses the reader to a degree that seems almost impossible ... sometimes the bad guys win! This author is a favorite of mine (THE DEVIL AND WEBSTER, etc.) who just finds the twisted way to see events of ordinary life. Who needs fantasy when we have Jean Hanff Korelitz? As a writer, I am in awe, and jealous too.
'A bookworm's treat.' Sunday Times 'Unforgettable.' Wall Street Journal 'An entertaining cat-and-mouse thriller. 'Daily Telegraph' 'Smart, funny and deliciously dark.' Guardian 'Delicious' New York Times
** Chosen as one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024 **
The wildly twisty and devilishly clever new thriller from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plot.
Not many first-time novelists get a profile in the New York Times. Then again, few first-time novelists come with the backstory of Anna Williams-Bonner: recent bride of a wildly successful writer who took his own life even as his fame seemed…
I don't even read science fiction and fantasy, but I read this post-apocalyptic novel three times last year and I could read it again ... it's astonishing, moving, gritty, soaring ... I loved every word and St. John Mandel is a master at the top of her craft game
'Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others' - George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones
Now an HBO Max original TV series
The New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction National Book Awards Finalist PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.
One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in…
THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN ... the story of a mother who loses her family only AFTER recovering her little boy who was abducted nine years before, it was the first selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, now 25 years ago, read all over the world by all different kinds of readers! The protagonist character, Beth Cappadora, was someone readers had to struggle to like, but whom it was pretty easy to love ... a different matter.
