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Harlem Shuffle
by Whitehead, Colson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0385545134
- ISBN 13
- 9780385545136
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. The eighth novel from the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the 2016 National Book Award, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. A clean unmarked copy.
Synopsis
“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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- Bookseller
- Great Northern Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11760
- Title
- Harlem Shuffle
- Author
- Whitehead, Colson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385545134
- ISBN 13
- 9780385545136
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2021
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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