Colson Whitehead: Cool Machine, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Cool Machine
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group, 07/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780349727684
- Item number:
- 12608438
- Volume:
- 368 Pages
- Format:
- 234 x 153 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 21.7.2026
- Series:
- The Harlem Trilogy - volume 3
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of Cool Machine |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 17.95* |
| Buch, Gebunden | EUR 27.00* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 29.24* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 28.41* |
Blurb
From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings 1980s New York to vivid, unforgettable life.
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.
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.
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.
With 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, Cool Machine 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.
Biography
Colson Whitehead, geboren 1969 in New York, studierte an der Harvard University und arbeitete für die Zeitschriften Vibe, Spin und New York Newsday sowie als Fernsehkritiker für "The Village Voice". Er wurde für seinen Roman The Underground Railroad 2016 mit dem National Book Award und 2017 mit dem Pulitzer Prize for Fiction sowie der Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction und dem Arthur C. Clarke Award ausgezeichnet; 2020 erhielt er für The Nickel Boys den Pulitzer Prize for Fiction erneut, was vor ihm in der mehr als 100-jährigen Geschichte des Preises erst bei drei Schriftstellern der Fall gewesen war.
