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Harlem Shuffle is a 2021 novel by American novelist Colson Whitehead. It is the follow-up to Whitehead's 2019 novel The Nickel Boys, which earned him his second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is a work of crime fiction and a family saga [1] that takes place in Harlem between 1959 and 1964. [2]
Sep 14, 2021 · A novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad. Ray Carney is a furniture salesman with a double life as a crook, who gets involved in a big score at the Hotel Theresa.
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Sep 14, 2021 · An Amazon Best Book of September 2021: Colson Whitehead’s latest is a blisteringly entertaining novel of schemers and dreamers, mobsters and crooks, elaborate heists and furniture fronts, and the thrilling mischief of those who are up to no good and others who are just trying to make a living.
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Sep 15, 2021 · September 15, 20215:00 AM ET. By. Denny S. Bryce. Enlarge this image. Doubleday. A heist with a cast of zany characters, tongue-in-cheek dialogue, questionable criminal skills, and of course, a...
Sep 14, 2021 · “Harlem Shuffle” is structured as a three-part mini-series set in 1959, 1961 and 1964. As it progresses, anti-police-shooting rebellions roil Harlem; old slick gangsters give way to a new breed...
Dec 7, 2021 · A review of Colson Whitehead's novel Harlem Shuffle, a story of a furniture salesman and a crook in 1950s and 60s New York. The review praises the novel's humor, language, and social commentary, and compares it to the historical events of the time.
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Harlem Shuffle’s ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It’s a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.
