Harlem Shuffle: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0708899447
- ISBN 13
- 9780708899441
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About This Item
Black boards with red writing on spine; book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. Cover price of £16.99 on front dust jacket fold; tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition.
Fleet First Edition; First Printing as indicated by complete number line ending in "1" on copyright page. Signed by author on half-title page.
Whitehead's follow-up to his 2019 novel, The Nickel Boys (which earned him a second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction). Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
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
- Sherlock Joe's Book Hunting (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WHHD010
- Title
- Harlem Shuffle: A Novel
- Author
- Colson Whitehead
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0708899447
- ISBN 13
- 9780708899441
- Publisher
- Fleet
- Date Published
- 2021
- Pages
- 320
- Keywords
- colson whitehead; harlem shuffle; fleet; signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Signed / Inscribed;
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