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Author : Colson Whitehead
Genre : Fiction

Summary : From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad Benji 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. Then he spends his summers in the African-American community of Sag Harbor on Long Island, and is just as confused. He's way behind on the latest handshakes, baffled by new slang, and his attempts to be cool and meet girls are constantly thwarted by his extremely awkward inner geek, braces and a badly cut Afro. It's the summer of 1985 and Benji is determined that this is the summer when things will change and he'll fit in. For starters, he'll be reinvented as 'Ben'. When that doesn't catch on, it's another summer of the perpetual mortification that is teenage existence.

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Author : Colson Whitehead
Genre : Fiction

Summary : NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST FOR FICTION * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR FICTION * NAACP IMAGE AWARD FINALIST FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK – FICTION A gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s, from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead. To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Ray Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a 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. Cash is tight, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plans 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, after all. Now Ray has to cater to a new clientele, one made up of shady cops on the take, vicious minions of the local crime lord and numerous other Harlem lowlifes. As Ray navigates his double life, he starts to see the truth about 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?

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Author : Colson Whitehead
Genre : Fiction

Summary : From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is "funny and wise and sumptuously written" (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review). Colson Whitehead’s triumphant 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. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

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Author : Colson Whitehead
Genre : Fiction

Summary : Questa volta Ray Carney sta rigando dritto. Dopo quattro anni, il suo passato da ricettatore è quasi un ricordo e il suo negozio di mobili in 125th Street macina affari onesti. Il contesto tuttavia non aiuta; è il 1971 ed è New York: la spazzatura si accumula per le strade e infuriano incendi dolosi, il livello di criminalità è ai massimi storici, la città scivola verso la bancarotta ed è guerra aperta tra la polizia e il Black Liberation Army. Così, quando Carney non riesce a trovare i biglietti del concerto dei Jackson 5 per sua figlia May, non ci pensa due volte a rispolverare un vecchio contatto in polizia, il detective Munson, una sorta di garante del malaffare nelle sue più svariate espressioni. E nello spazio di una telefonata, Ray Carney rientra nel giro. Dentro o fuori, ci sono delle costanti nella vita: una di queste è Pepper, ex partner nel crimine e sorta di "zio" acquisito dei figli di Ray, che Carney richiama per un lavoretto di security in una produzione cinematografica Made in Harlem scaraventandolo in un mondo fatto di capricciose star hollywoodiane, spacciatori, gangster e sicari. Sarà ancora a Pepper che tornerà a rivolgersi il venditore di mobili nel 1975 quando, sullo sfondo di una Harlem che brucia isolato per isolato, decide di mettersi sulle tracce di folli piromani manovrati da politici locali per losche speculazioni. Con Manifesto criminale Colson Whitehead prosegue il suo straordinario inno a Harlem - ritratta in tutta la sua gloria e il suo squallore - e a una città che si regge sulla corruzione, le minacce, l'ambizione, l'incompetenza e, a volte, solo sull'orgoglio.

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Author : Colson Whitehead
Genre : Fiction

Summary : In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in - or spent time - in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city's inner and outer landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations, and personal memories. Colson Whitehead conveys with almost uncanny immediacy the feelings and thoughts of longtime residents and of newcomers who dream of making it their home; of those who have conquered its challenges; and of those who struggle against its cruelties. Whitehead's style is as multilayered and multifarious as New York itself: Switching from third person, to first person, to second person, he weaves individual voices into a jazzy musical composition that perfectly reflects the way we experience the city. There is a funny, knowing riff on what it feels like to arrive in New York for the first time; a lyrical meditation on how the city is transformed by an unexpected rain shower; and a wry look at the ferocious battle that is commuting. The plaintive notes of the lonely and dispossessed resound in one passage, while another captures those magical moments when the city seems to be talking directly to you, inviting you to become one with its rhythms. The Colossus of New York is a remarkable portrait of life in the big city. Ambitious in scope, gemlike in its details, it is at once an unparalleled tribute to New York and the ideal introduction to one of the most exciting writers working today.

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Author : Colson Whitehead
Genre : Fiction

Summary : This New York Times Notable Book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry. The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town's aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realize, is a nomenclature consultant. And, it turns out, the consultant needs them. But in a culture overwhelmed by marketing, the name is everything and our hero's efforts may result in not just a new name for the town but a new and subtler truth about it as well.

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Author : Colson Whitehead
Genre : Fiction

Summary : In Electric Literature's Autumn 2009 anthology of short fiction, Colson Whitehead charts the rise to fame of a truth-telling comedian. Stephen O'Connor transports us to a cabin in the woods, where a young woman attempting to finish her dissertation in solitude becomes increasingly convinced she's not alone. Pasha Malla follows a young writer as he explores how tragedy influences art-and how life falls short of it. Marisa Silver tells the tale of three sisters who perceive the truth about their parents through the eyes of some unexpected visitors, and Lydia Davis' solitary narrator acutely details the behavior of three cows who live in a pasture just across the road.