Don’t be surprised if this one wins Whitehead another major award. Book Reviewed by: Jennifer Hon Khalaf Buy This Book. Whitehead is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of ten works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. First Published: Sep 2021, 336 pages Paperback: Aug 2022, 336 pages. The following is from Colson Whitehead's new novel, Harlem Shuffle. It’s a superlative story, but the most impressive achievement is Whitehead’s loving depiction of a Harlem 60 years gone-“that rustling, keening thing of people and concrete”-which lands as detailed and vivid as Joyce’s Dublin. Critics Opinion: Readers Opinion: Not Yet Rated. These and other characters force Carney to decide just how bent he wants to be. A husband, a father, and the son of a man who once worked as muscle for a local crime boss, Carney is “only slightly bent when it to being crooked.” But when his cousin Freddie-whose stolen goods Carney occasionally fences through his furniture store-decides to rob the historic Hotel Theresa, a lethal cast of underworld figures enter Carney’s life, among them the mobster Chink Montague, “known for his facility with a straight razor” WWII veteran Pepper and the murderous, purple-suited Miami Joe, Whitehead’s answer to No Country for Old Men’s Anton Chigurh. Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Harlem Shuffle, is the epic and captivating story of Ray Carneyfurniture salesman, family man, entrepreneur on the rise and a vivid, walking, breathing, living exemplar of that classic archetype, the striver.
It’s 1959 and Ray Carney has built an “unlikely kingdom” selling used furniture.
Two-time Pulitzer winner Whitehead ( The Nickel Boys) returns with a sizzling heist novel set in civil rights–era Harlem.
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