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Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
$24.99 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the MacArthur and Whiting Award–winning author ofJohn Henry DaysandThe Intuitionistcomes a new, brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry When the citizens of Winthrop needed a new name for their town, they did what anyone would do—they hired a consultant ...Show more
Crook Manifesto: Fast, fun, ribald and pulpy, with a touch of Quentin Tarantino Sunday Times by Colson Whitehead
$37.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Harlem Shuffle 2 | Reading Level: near fine
1971 - Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on t ...Show more
Harlem Shuffle (#1 Ray Carney) by Colson Whitehead
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show)'Dazzling' Guardian 'Gloriously entertaining' Evening Standard 'A rich, wild book' New York Times 'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...'To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an ...Show more
Harlem Shuffle (#1 Ray Carney) by Colson Whitehead
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
'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 life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents o ...Show more
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Short-listed for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Building the railways that made America, John Henry died with a hammer in his hand moments after competing against a steam drill in a battle of endurance. The story of his death made him a legend. Over a century later, J. Sutter, a freelance journalis ...Show more
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
$29.99 NZD
Category: World fiction
It's the summer of 1985 and Benji is determined that this is the summer when things will change and he'll fit in. For starters, he'll be reinvented as 'Ben'. When that doesn't catch on, it's another summer of the perpetual mortification that is teenage existence. Benji spends most of the year as one of ...Show more
The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
$27.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, 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 American ...Show more
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
$24.99 NZD
Category: World fiction
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, and ...Show more
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THE NICKEL BOYS is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time through t ...Show more
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words o ...Show more
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES BY BARRY JENKINS (COMING MAY 2021) WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FIC ...Show more
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
#1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize One of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times ...Show more