Colson Whitehead: Harlem Shuffle (CD)
Harlem Shuffle
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Read by:
- Dion Graham
- Publisher:
- RANDOM HOUSE, 2021
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593455548
- Item number:
- 10457465
- Duration:
- 10 hrs 30 min
- Release date:
- 14.9.2021
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
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. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his faðcade 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. 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.
Biography (Colson Whitehead)
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.