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Oct 21, 2003 · 3.71. 3,744 ratings521 reviews. In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in—or spent time—in the greatest of American cities.
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Oct 21, 2003 · As ebullient as Walt Whitman and as succinct as Emily Dickinson, a young novelist (John Henry Days, 2001, etc.) looses his five senses on his native New York City—and allows the sixth some play, as well. Whitehead makes it both difficult and easy for readers in this astonishingly evocative view of Gotham.
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THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK. A City in Thirteen Parts. By Colson Whitehead. 158 pp. New York: Doubleday. $19.95. For more than a century, like some complicated and unusually savvy butterfly,...
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“A tour de force.” —Luc Sante, The New York Times Book Review “Pitch-perfect. . . . Utterly authentic. . . . The Colossus of New York is quite simply the most delicious 13 bites of the Big Apple I’ve taken in ages.” —The Washington Post
