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HARLEM SHUFFLE:; A Novel
by Whitehead, Colson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0385545134
- ISBN 13
- 9780385545136
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 2021. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Like New/Like New. SIGNED boldly by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with multi-colored montage, 318 pages. Colson Whitehead (born 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of several novels, including his debut work, the 1999 novel The Intuitionist, and The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION and the 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION, and was long-listed for the Man Booker prize of 2017. He has also published books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship ("Genius Grant").<br /> <br /> SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! No previous owner or remainder marks.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9902
- Title
- HARLEM SHUFFLE:; A Novel
- Author
- Whitehead, Colson
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385545134
- ISBN 13
- 9780385545136
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2021
- Keywords
- African American, crime, thriller,Harlem, New York, Jewelry, receiving stolen goods, sales people, theft
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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