Author: Percy Colson
Publisher: Dyson Press
Keywords: biography, unconventional, melba
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1406735183
ISBN-13: 9781406735185

V t i v i ut --y . A, MEBB AN UNCONVENTIONAL BIOGRAPHY BY PERCY COLSON Les dieux sont de nos jours les matt res souverains Mais, Seigneur, notre gloire est dans nos propres mains. RACINE GRAYSON GRAYSON CURZON STREET MAYFAIR LONDON , , t First Published by , fy yteft 6 Grayson Ltd, 1932 Printed in Great Britain by Northumberland Press Ltd. DE 19 A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT COUNTRY WHICH GAVE BIRTH TO MELBA AND ESPECIALLY TO THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY FROM WHICH SHE TOOK HER NAME PREFACE THE life of a famous singer offers perhaps, less scope to the biographer for the accomplishment of his fell purpose

Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: novel, intuitionist
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-01-04
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0385493002
ISBN-13: 9780385493000

Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead’s odd, sly, and ultimately irresistible first novel. The setting is an unnamed though obviously New Yorkish high-rise city, the time less convincingly future than deliciously other, as it combines 21st-century engineering feats with 19th-century pork-barrel politics and smoky working-class pubs. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical idea, and Lila Mae Watson, the city’s first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility. Lila Mae’s good

Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: harbor, sag
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0307455165
ISBN-13: 9780307455161

Amazon Best of the Month, May 2009: Like his fellow New Yorker Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead weaves gracefully through genres with each of his books, but Sag Harbor, billed as his "autobiographical fourth novel," seems positioned to be his breakout book--which is a funny thing for a writer who has already received so many major literary awards, including a MacArthur "Genius" grant and being short-listed for the Pulitzer. The year is 1985 and 15-year-old Benji Cooper, one of the only black students at his elite Manhattan private school, leaves the city to spend three largely unsupervised m

Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: novel, harbor, sag
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-04-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0385527659
ISBN-13: 9780385527651

The warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in America The year is 1985. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to catch glimpses of nudity on late-night cable TV. After a tragic mishap on his first day of high school—when Benji reveals his deep enthusiasm for the horror movie magazine Fangoria—his social doom is sealed for the next four years. But every summer, Benji escapes to the H

Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: novel, hurt, hides, apex
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-03-21
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 038550795X
ISBN-13: 9780385507950

From the MacArthur and Whiting Award–winning author of John Henry Days and The Intuitionist comes a new, brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industryWhen the citizens of Winthrop needed a new name for their town, they did what anyone would do—they hired a consultant.The protagonist of Apex Hides the Hurt is a nomenclature consultant. If you want just the right name for your new product, whether it be automobile or antidepressant, sneaker or spoon, he’s the man to get the job done. Wardrobe lack pizzazz? Come to the Outfit Outlet. Always the wallfl

Author: Joshua Colson
Publisher: Media Creations
Keywords: incident, vale, dreams, synthetic
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2004-03-31
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1932560653
ISBN-13: 9781932560657

Set in the far future, Synthetic Dreams is a story of individual people and synthans caught up in events of epic scale, in a galaxy where the mistakes of the past threaten to destroy a civilization’s limitless potential.

Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: novel, hurt, hides, apex
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-01-09
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1400031265
ISBN-13: 9781400031269

The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town’s aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realize, is a nomenclature consultant. And, it turns out, the consultant needs them. But in a culture overwhelmed by marketing, the name is everything and our hero’s efforts may result in not just a new name for the town but a new and subtler truth about it as well.