Harlem Shuffle: A Novel (libro En Inglés)

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Nombre: Harlem Shuffle: A Novel (Libro en Inglés)
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).

"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, 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 Theresathe "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.

But mostly, it's a joy to read, another dazzling novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Colson Whitehead.

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year One of The Washington Posts 50 Notable Works of Fiction of the Year TIME Magazine 100 Must Read Books of the Year One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Slate, Boston Globe, Town & Country, Vulture, and more One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year One of The New York Times Critics' Best Books of the Year

A rich, wild book that could pass for genre fiction. Its much more, but the entertainment value alone should ensure it the same kind of popular success that greeted his last two novels, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys."
-Janet Maslin, The New York Times

One of the Ten Best Books of 2021
Laura Miller, Slate

Colson Whitehead has a couple of Pulitzers under his belt, along with several other awards celebrating his outstanding novels. Harlem Shuffle is a suspenseful crime thriller that's sure to add to the tally it's a fabulous novel you must read.
-NPR.org

A warm, involving novel
-The Wall Street Journal

A a fiendishly clever romp, a heist novel thats also a morality play about respectability politics, a family comedy disguised as a noir...Harlem Shuffle reads like a book whose author had enormous fun writing it. The dialogue crackles and sparks; the zippy heist plot twists itself in one showy misdirection after another. Most impressive of all is lovable family-man Ray, whose relentless ambition drives the plot forward while his glib salesmans patter keeps you guessing about his true intentions. This book is a blast that will make you think, and what could be better than that?
-Vox

Another triumph from Pulitzer w

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9780525567271
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 0525567275
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: Anchor
Titulo del libro: Harlem Shuffle: A Novel (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Whitehead, Colson
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 336
ISBN-13: 9780525567271
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9780525567271