The Intuitionist
A Novel
This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and…
Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. He lives in New York City.
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Crook Manifesto
Colson Whitehead
The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead; Introduction by Colin Grant
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
The Noble Hustle
Colson Whitehead
Zone One
Colson Whitehead
Sag Harbor
Colson Whitehead
Apex Hides the Hurt
Colson Whitehead
The Colossus of New York
Colson Whitehead
Selected Stories from the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002
Series editor Larry Dark, stories selected by Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates andColson Whitehead
John Henry Days
Colson Whitehead