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1 de jan. de 2002 · Paperback. $14.12. Preloaded Digital Audio Player. Upon publication of his debut novel, , Colson Whitehead was hailed as one of the most talented young writers of his generation. Whitehead provides further proof of his gifts with this powerful retelling of the legend of John Henry, the mythic 19th-century black laborer who won a contest with a ...
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11 de mai. de 2001 · Colson Whitehead's "John Henry Days," the follow-up to his much -- and quite rightly -- acclaimed 1999 debut, "The Intuitionist," is, by every standard, a big book.
According to one reviewer, in John Henry Days “there is an insistent parallel between the industrial or machine age to which John Henry was sacrificed and the digital information age to which J. is enslaved, in which information is used not to enlighten but to sell” [Maya Jaggi, “Railroad Blues”, The Guardian (London), June 23, 2001].
Plot Summary. Acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead’s novel John Henry Days (2001) is a postmodern social satire that weaves together several narrative threads to create a novel “with encyclopedic aspirations akin to Moby Dick or Ulysses,” according to David Foster Wallace. Whitehead bases his novel in part on the real ...
As a flesh-and-blood John Henry, the “steel-drivin’ man” accepts his fate, resigned to live out his destiny. He is both heroic and sacrificial, worthy of the stories, songs, artwork, and ...
By Colson Whitehead. 389 pp. New York: Doubleday. $24.95. olson Whitehead's first novel, ''The Intuitionist,'' was a lively comic fantasy about a New York City elevator inspector named Lila Mae Watson. The book established Whitehead's intelligence and originality as a novelist, but I wasn't too excited by the world of elevator inspection, and I ...
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