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Harlem Shuffle A Novel Hardcover - 2021
by Whitehead, Colson
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- Title Harlem Shuffle A Novel
- Author Whitehead, Colson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; First Printing
- Condition Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Doubleday, New York
- Date 2021
- Bookseller's Inventory # 38880
- ISBN 9780385545136 / 0385545134
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.38 x 1.5 in (23.60 x 16.21 x 3.81 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Novels
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2022417004
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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Summary
“Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...” To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver’s Row don’t approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it’s still home.
Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time.
Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn’t ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn’t ask questions, either.
Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa—the “Waldorf of Harlem"—and volunteers Ray’s services as the fence. The heist doesn’t go as planned; they rarely do. Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes.
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- Booklist, 06/01/2021, Page 42
- Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2021, Page 0
- Library Journal, 08/01/2021, Page 53
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 04/01/2021, Page 40
- Publishers Weekly, 05/10/2021, Page 0
- Shelf Awareness, 11/30/2021, Page 0