TY - SOUND AU - Everett,Percival AU - Hoffman,Dominic ED - Playaway Digital Audio, ED - Playaway Products, LLC, TI - James SN - 9798822682566 AV - PS3555.V34 J36 2024 U1 - PLA PY - 2024///] CY - Solon, Ohio PB - Playaway Products, LLC KW - Finn, Huckleberry KW - Fugitive slaves KW - Fiction KW - Race relations KW - Male friendship KW - Runaway children KW - Mississippi River KW - Missouri KW - Action and adventure fiction KW - lcgft KW - Humorous fiction KW - Novels KW - Audiobooks KW - Playaway (Preloaded audio player) N1 - Title from Playaway label; Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player; One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening; Accompanying material may vary; Previously released by Random House Audio, �2024; Read by Dominic Hoffman; Adult N2 - When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the rivers banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jims agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light ER -