The Intuitionist
$17.96
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2017
Summary
Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whitehead’s first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines twenty-first-century engineering feats with nineteenth-century pork-barrel politics. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical ideal, and Lila Mae Watson, the city’s first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility.
When Number Eleven of the newly completed Fanny Briggs Memorial Building go…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780708898475 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0708898475 |
| Author: | Colson Whitehead |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Fleet |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 132mm x 18mm |
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The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye - Time
Ingenious and starkly original … Literary reputations may not always rise and fall as predictably as elevators, bit if there’s any justice in the world of fiction, Colson Whitehead’s should be heading toward the upper floors - New York Times Book ReviewMagical … THE INTUITIONIST ranks alongside Catch-22, V, The Bluest Eye and other groundbreaking first novels … Whitehead shares Heller’s sense of the absurd, Pynchon’s operatic expansiveness and Morrison’s deconstruction of race and racism - San Francisco ChronicleWhitehead’s prose is graceful and often lyrical, and his elevator underworld is a complex, lovingly realized creation - New YorkerAbout The Author
Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.
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