![]() ![]() Sag Harbor blends all of Whitehead’s thematic ingredients and adds a dollop of pop culture references (he was a T.V. Alternately sweet, sassy and sardonic, it is an impressionistic cityscape that celebrates the people, places and vibes that make New York City one helluva town. ![]() His third book, The Colossus of New York (2004) shows a completely different side of this gifted writer. Like Philip Roth a generation earlier, Whitehead writes elegantly and eloquently about what it feels like to be an upwardly mobile outsider in pursuit of the American dream.Īlready a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize nomination, Whitehead’s first two acclaimed novels, The Intuitionist (1998) and John Henry Days (2001), though very different in tone and topic, are both about high-achieving African Americans taking on the stereotypical status quo, surpassing the white man at his own game and eventually paying a high price for that success. ![]() $24.95.Ĭolson Whitehead is rapidly emerging as one of the major literary voices of the new millennium. ![]()
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