Death knells toll alike at the dawn of the machine age and the digital age, proclaiming an exhausted general collapse in this impressive, multilayered second novel by Whitehead (The Intuitionist
). Seizing on the story of American folk hero John...
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Colson Whitehead, Author . Doubleday $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-50794-3
Whitehead (The Intuitionist; John Henry Days) lays out a wildly creative view of New York City. To out-of-towners, Gotham is about famous places, but Whitehead's New York is not. It's more about a way of seeing. For example, "No matter...
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Colson Whitehead, Author . Doubleday $22.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-385-50795-0
Following the novels The Intuitionist
(1998) and John Henry Days
(2001), and the nonfiction The Colossus of New York
(2004), a paean to New York City, Whitehead disappoints in this intriguingly conceived but static tale of a small town with an...
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Colson Whitehead, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-385-52765-1
In what Whitehead describes as his “Autobiographical Fourth Novel” (as opposed to the more usual autobiographical first novel), the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist John Henry Days
explores the in-between space of adolescence...
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Colson Whitehead, Author Anchor Books $19.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-49299-7
If you've ever wanted to know your elevator inspector better, Whitehead's meaty and mythic first novel may help you get acquainted. Set in a huge, unnamed city, it hinges on the friction between rival groups of inspectors--the Empiricists, who base...
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Colson Whitehead. Doubleday, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-52807-8
While the revolution will not be televised, the apocalypse and what comes after, at least according to Whitehead (Sag Harbor), will have sponsors. It will even have an anthem, the brilliantly self-referential "Stop! Can You Hear the Eagle Roar?" (the
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Colson Whitehead. Doubleday, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-53705-6
The eternal tension between good luck and remorseless odds animates this loose-limbed jaunt through the world of high-stakes poker. Novelist Whitehead (Zone One) was staked to a berth in the World Series of Poker by Grantland magazine, a mission for
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Colson Whitehead. Doubleday, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-54236-4
"Each thing had a value... In America the quirk was that people were things." So observes Ajarry, taken from Africa as a girl in the mid-18th century to be sold and resold and sold again. She finally arrives at the vicious Georgia plantation where...
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Colson Whitehead, read by Bahni Turpin. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 11 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-1-5247-3625-5
Audiobook fans will certainly not be disappointed by versatile actor Turpin’s performance of Whitehead’s powerful historical novel, which tells the story of Cora, a teenage slave girl who lives on a cotton plantation in 1850s Georgia. After several...
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Colson Whitehead. Doubleday, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-53707-0
“As it had ever been with Nickel, no one believed them until someone else said it,” Whitehead (The Underground Railroad) writes in the present-day prologue to this story, in which construction workers have dug up what appears to be a secret...
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Colson Whitehead. Doubleday, $28.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-54513-6
Two-time Pulitzer winner Whitehead (The Nickel Boys) returns with a sizzling heist novel set in civil rights–era Harlem. It’s 1959 and Ray Carney has built an “unlikely kingdom” selling used furniture. A husband, a father, and the son of a man who...
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Colson Whitehead. Doubleday, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-54515-0
Whitehead returns with a colorful if haphazard sequel to Harlem Shuffle involving an interconnected series of misguided capers. In 1971, Harlem furniture dealer Art Carney hits up corrupt cop and fixer Detective Munson for Jackson 5 tickets for his...
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