The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
The marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected debut novel from the author of The Underground Railroad.
The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye -- Walter Kirn * 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 Review *
Magical . . . 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 Chronicle *
Whitehead's prose is graceful and often lyrical, and his elevator underworld is a complex, lovingly realized creation * New Yorker *
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 Review *
Magical . . . 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 Chronicle *
Whitehead's prose is graceful and often lyrical, and his elevator underworld is a complex, lovingly realized creation * New Yorker *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780708898475 |
| ISBN 10 | 0708898475 |
| Title | The Intuitionist |
| Author | Colson Whitehead |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2017-05-04 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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