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The Colossus of New York Colson Whitehead

The Colossus of New York By Colson Whitehead

The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead


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Summary

The novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. In this portrait of the greatest of cities, Colson Whitehead conveys with immediacy the feelings and thoughts of longtime residents and of newcomers who dream of making it their home.

The Colossus of New York Summary

The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts by Colson Whitehead

The novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. In this portrait of the greatest of cities, Colson Whitehead conveys with immediacy the feelings and thoughts of longtime residents and of newcomers who dream of making it their home. His style, a series of vignettes, meditations, and personal memories, is as multi-layered and multifarious as New York itself. There is a funny, knowing riff on what it feels like to arrive there for the first time; a lyrical meditation on how the city is transformed by an unexpected rain shower; while another captures those magical moments when the city seems to be talking directly to you, inviting you to become one with its rhythms.

The Colossus of New York Reviews

Praise for JOHN HENRY DAYS * 'The sumptuous writing has the structure and quality of music ... A voice so intelligent and an idiom so imaginative that it can lift a reader right out of his chair.' New York Times * 'Blithely gifted ... an ambitious, finely chiselled work.' John Updike * 'Such is the buoyancy of his talent, and the protean assuredness of his prose, that the result is controlled, poignant, wittily observed and often gleefully comic.' Guardian * 'Dazzling ... It may be nothing new to suggest that history is fiction: but the pleasure of reading this ingenious patchwork lies in how it reminds us of the vitality of those fictions.' Independent on Sunday

About Colson Whitehead

COLSON WHITEHEAD was born and raised in New York City. his first novel, THE INTUITIONIST, won the New Voices Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. JOHN HENRY DAYS was a New York Times Editor's Choice, won the Young Lions Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the recipient of a Whiting Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Brooklyn.

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GOR002996143
9780007164011
0007164017
The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts by Colson Whitehead
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
20031103
176
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