Colson Whitehead: Harlem Shuffle
Harlem Shuffle
Buch
- Little, Brown Book Group, 09/2021
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780708899465
- Bestellnummer: 10428840
- Umfang: 320 Seiten
- Gewicht: 41 g
- Maße: 231 x 150 mm
- Stärke: 27 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 14.9.2021
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Ray 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 façade 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.
Biografie
Colson Whitehead, geboren 1969 in New York, studierte an der Harvard University und arbeitete für die Zeitschriften Vibe, Spin und New York Newsday sowie als Fernsehkritiker für "The Village Voice". Er wurde für seinen Roman The Underground Railroad 2016 mit dem National Book Award und 2017 mit dem Pulitzer Prize for Fiction sowie der Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction und dem Arthur C. Clarke Award ausgezeichnet; 2020 erhielt er für The Nickel Boys den Pulitzer Prize for Fiction erneut, was vor ihm in der mehr als 100-jährigen Geschichte des Preises erst bei drei Schriftstellern der Fall gewesen war. Colson Whitehead
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