Summary
WINNER OF THE HURSTON-WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD IN FICTION WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARD
A spare and beautiful meditation on love and longing, My Jim holds an unrelenting gaze on the life and world of Sadie, the wife of Jim from Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
“Rawles covers territory Twain did not… . As heart-wrenching a personal history as any recorded in American literature.” - The New York Times Book Review
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781400054015 |
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| ISBN-10: | 140005401X |
| Author: | Nancy Rawles |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2011 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 132mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“Here, finally, is the Jim we can only glimpse between hijinks and humiliations in Huck Finn—a man who’s clever and tender, romantic and tragic. And there’s just no escaping his wife’s voice. I read some chapters without blinking.”—The Christian Science Monitor
“A wonderful first-person narrative … both a love story and a chronicle of a brutal time in American history.”—Chicago Tribune
“My Jim is a compelling, eloquently written novel that can stand on its own merits beside the great works that inspired it.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Rawles’s affecting spin-off of Twain’s classic gives the resilient Sadie Watson a harrowing story and a powerful voice to tell it.”—Entertainment Weekly
Nancy Rawles
Nancy Rawles is an award-winning novelist and playwright. Her novel Love Like Gumbo was the recipient of the American Book Award. She lives in Seattle.
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