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The Nickel Boys 'Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2020)
Colson Whitehead
- Random house us
- 1 Juillet 2020
- 9780345804341
It's the early 1960s, and as the Civil Rights movement begins to reach segregated Tallahassee, the young, deeply principled Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to heart: he is «as good as anyone.» He is about to enroll in the local black college, but for a black boy in the J...
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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad , Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Cro...
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A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilisation. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. ...
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Colson Whiteheadyes'>#8217;s eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steeldriver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level ityes'>#8217;s the story of a disaffected, middleaged bl...
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Apex Hides the Hurt
Colson Whitehead
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 9 Janvier 2007
- 9780307279781
The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town';s aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realize, ...
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A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is slowly being resettled. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street - aka 'Zone ...
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The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 23 Mai 2012
- 9780307819963
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C'est l'été 1985, et comme chaque année depuis toujours Benji passe ses vacances à Sag Harbor, la station balnéaire de la bourgeoisie noire new-yorkaise. Mais cette fois, il se l'est juré, tout sera différent : il vient d'avoir quinze ans, il a même trouvé un premier boulot. Dorénavant, on l'appelle...
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'John Henry Days' is a novel of extraordinary scope and mythic power. Recognised as one of the novels of 2001, it established Colson Whitehead as one of the pre-eminent young American writers of our time. ...
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The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award
Colson Whitehead
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 2 Août 2016
- 9780385537049
The Newest Oprah Book Club 2016 Selection From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for...
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, and they plot th...
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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, ...
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This New York Times Notable Book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry.The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call ...
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The Colossus of New York
Colson Whitehead
- Little brown book group digital
- 1 Février 2018
- 9780708898772
In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in - or spent time - in the greatest of A...
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