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Sag Harbor Colson Whitehead

Sag Harbor By Colson Whitehead

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead


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Summary

It's 1985. Benji, the son of a lawyer and a doctor, is one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends much of the year going to roller disco bar mitzvahs and trying desperately to find a social group that will accept him.

Sag Harbor Summary

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

It's 1985. Benji, the son of a lawyer and a doctor, is one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends much of the year going to roller disco bar mitzvahs and trying desperately to find a social group that will accept him. But every summer, Benji and his brother Reggie escape to Sag Harbor on Long Island, where a small community of African-American professionals have built a world of their own. Except Benji is just as confused about this all-black refuge as he is about the white world he negotiates during the school year. He's one step behind on every new dance, and his attempts to meet a girl are undermined by his own awkwardness, not to mention his braces and his father-cut Afro. Sag Harbor is a warm and funny novel about the perpetual mortification of teenage existence from one of the most acclaimed writers in the English language.

Sag Harbor Reviews

He weaves a spell that is by turns enchanting, mood-shifting, and side-splitting, sharing the sweet, sad secrets of his mixed-up, mid-'80s adolescence Elle Intimate and autobiographical story...the novel can't help but hold your attention Dazed and Confused The Coolest Writer in America - He's widely admired, ever smooth, a master of writing important books Esquire Whitehead is a smart guy and a dazzling talent ... he has a David Foster Wallace-esque knack for punctuating meticulously figurative constructions with deadpan slacker wit Los Angeles Times A love letter not only to the Long Island town and African-American summer enclave but to '80s culture and The Cosby Show; to hip-hop and upper-middle-class black culture Dallas Morning News

About Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead is the author of The Intuitionist, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; John Henry Days, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize; and The Colossus of New York and Apex Hides the Hurt, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

Additional information

GOR001246798
9781846552540
1846552540
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
20090507
288
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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