New York:: Doubleday,, (2021.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A novel of "heists, shakes and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.," a follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'The Nickel Boys.' Whitehead has won an impressive number of awards, including the Guggenheim and the MacArthur "genius" award, and the 2016 National Book Award for "Underground Railroad." 318 pp.

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“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: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 88913
Title: THE HARLEM SHUFFLE.
Author: Whitehead, Colson
Format/Binding: Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Jacket Condition: like
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385545134
ISBN 13: 9780385545136
Publisher: Doubleday,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: (2021.)
Keywords: historical fiction, new york city, 1960s, crime story
Bookseller catalogs: African American Literature;

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