John Henry Days
A Novel
New York : Anchor Books, 2002.
Format: Ebook
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Description: 357 pages
From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is "funny and wise and sumptuously written" (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review).
Colson Whitehead's triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it's the story of a disaffected, middle-aged black journalist on a mission to set a record for junketeering who attends the annual John Henry Days festival. It is also a high-velocity thrill ride through the tunnel where American legend gives way to American pop culture, replete with p. r. flacks, stamp collectors, blues men , and turn-of-the-century song pluggers.
John Henry Days is an acrobatic, intellectually dazzling, and laugh-out-loud funny book that will be read and talked about for years to come.
Look for Colson Whitehead's new novel, Crook Manifesto !
Colson Whitehead's triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it's the story of a disaffected, middle-aged black journalist on a mission to set a record for junketeering who attends the annual John Henry Days festival. It is also a high-velocity thrill ride through the tunnel where American legend gives way to American pop culture, replete with p. r. flacks, stamp collectors, blues men , and turn-of-the-century song pluggers.
John Henry Days is an acrobatic, intellectually dazzling, and laugh-out-loud funny book that will be read and talked about for years to come.
Look for Colson Whitehead's new novel, Crook Manifesto !
Subjects:
Henry, John (Legendary character) -- Fiction.
African American journalists -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
West Virginia -- Fiction.
Henry, John (Legendary character) -- Fiction.
African American journalists -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
West Virginia -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780307486677 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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Electronic reproduction. New York : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2373 KB).