{"product_id":"cool-machine-colson-whitehead","title":"Cool Machine (Colson Whitehead)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner ColsonWhitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings 1980s New York to vivid, unforgettable life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Colson Whitehead's trilogy ends with a bang... a street-level social history of modern New York told through fences, gangsters, hookers, politicians, landlords, developers and dreamers - a Dickensian gallery of rogues through whom an entire metropolis comes into view'\u003ci\u003e The Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner\/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture's Dealer of the Month. When the banks won't give his beloved wife, Elizabeth, a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1983. To some, Carney's friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath. To others, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he's feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, he's plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene. Luckily for him, whether you're uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of violence - Pepper is a native speaker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now, twenty years after Freddie's death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie's son from the violent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again will mean risking the safety and security he's spent decades building for his family, with only one shot to get it right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith his usual pitch-perfect prose, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, \u003ci\u003eCool Machine\u003c\/i\u003e roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to Sugar Hill, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead's vivid characters, it's what's below the surface that reveals the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e, Today.com, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, LitHub, Bookriot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Whitehead's gift for description and denigration is as potent as ever' \u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e, Novel of the month\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eColson Whitehead is the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for \u003ci\u003eThe Nickel Boys\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e, which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Print PDF, Englisch, 368 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65815596073309,"sku":"K010443643","price":17.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1044364300001A.jpg?v=1788568259","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/cool-machine-colson-whitehead","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}