: A devastating novel - based on true events - of a hellish American reform school, from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad.
: Colson Whitehead : The Underground Railroad ISBN: 0708898408 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780708898406 : Little Brown : : 1518.00 . : (1 .) : From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave`s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South
: Whitehead, Colson : Colossus of new york ISBN: 0708898769 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780708898765 : Little Brown : : 1516.00 . : .
: By the author of the international bestseller, The Underground Railroad.
: Whitehead, Colson : Zone one ISBN: 0307455173 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307455178 : Random House (USA) : : 1471.00 . : .
: Whitehead, Colson : Zone One ISBN: 178487857X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784878573 : Random House - Penguin : : 1319.00 . : .
: Whitehead, Colson : Sag harbor ISBN: 0099531887 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099531883 : Random House - Penguin : : 1319.00 . : .
: From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground RailroadBenji spends most of the year as one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, going to roller disco bar mitzvahs, desperately trying to find his place in the social hierarchy.
: This book provides a practical introduction to spatial history through the lens of the different primary sources that historians use. It is informed by a range of analytical perspectives and conveys a sense of the various facets of spatial history in a tangible, case-study based manner for students of modern history and its related fields.
: Whitehead, Colson : John Henry Days ISBN: 0385498209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385498203 : Random House (USA) : : 1559.00 . : .
: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead's eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it's the story of a disaffected, middle-aged black journalist on a mission to set a record for junketeering who attends the annual John Henry Days festival. It is also a high-velocity thrill ride through the tunnel where American legend gives way to American pop culture, replete with p. r. flacks, stamp collectors, blues men, and turn-of-the-century song pluggers. John Henry Days is an acrobatic, intellectually dazzling, and laugh-out-loud funny book that will be read and talked about for years to come.
: Whitehead, Colson : Crook manifesto ISBN: 0349727651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349727653 : Little Brown : : 2275.00 . : .
: Whitehead, Colson : Sag harbor ISBN: 0307455165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307455161 : Random House (USA) : : 2483.00 . : .
: Whitehead, Colson : Harlem Shuffle ISBN: 0385545134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385545136 : Random House (USA) : : 2662.00 . : .
: From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked... To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his fa ade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn't ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn't ask questions, either. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa -- the Waldorf of Harlem -- and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do. Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he begins to see who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs? Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem. But mostly, it's a joy to read, another dazzling novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Colson Whitehead.
