Crook Manifesto
A Novel
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.
It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It's strictly the straight-and-narrow for him—until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire. But Munson has…
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