The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead The marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected debut novel from the author of The Underground Railroad. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whiteheads first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines twenty-first-century engineering feats with nineteenth-century pork-barrel politics. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical ideal, and Lila Mae Watson, the citys first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility.When Number Eleven of the newly completed Fanny Briggs Memorial Building goes into deadly free-fall just hours after Lila Mae has signed off on it, using the controversial Intuitionist method of ascertaining elevator safety, both Intuitionists and Empiricists recognize the set-up, but may be willing to let Lila Mae take the fall in an election year.As Lila Mae strives to exonerate herself in this urgent adventure full of government spies, underworld hit men, and seductive double agents, behind the action, always, is the Idea. Lila Maes quest is mysteriously entwined with existence of heretofore lost writings by James Fulton, father of Intuitionism, a giant of vertical thought. If she is able to find and reveal his plan for the perfect, next-generation elevator, the city as it now exists may instantly become obsolescent. Notes Published in Little Browns imprint, Fleet for the first time, this is the debut novel from the author of the bestselling and award-winning The Underground Railroad, which is also out in paperback this month. A genre-bending, noir-inflected novel with elements of SF and political thrillers. Author Biography Colson Whitehead is a multi-award winning and bestselling author whose works include The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice and is a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. For The Underground Railroad, Whitehead won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a second time for The Nickel Boys, which also won the George Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kirkus Prize. The Underground Railroad has been adapted as an Amazon Prime TV series, produced and directed by the Academy Award winning director Barry Jenkins, and was broadcast in 2021. He lives with his family in New York City. Review The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man and Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye - TimeIngenious and starkly original . . . Literary reputations may not always rise and fall as predictably as elevators, bit if theres any justice in the world of fiction, Colson Whiteheads should be heading toward the upper floors - New York Times Book ReviewMagical . . . THE INTUITIONIST ranks alongside Catch-22, V, The Bluest Eye and other groundbreaking first novels . . . Whitehead shares Hellers sense of the absurd, Pynchons operatic expansiveness and Morrisons deconstruction of race and racism - San Francisco ChronicleWhiteheads prose is graceful and often lyrical, and his elevator underworld is a complex, lovingly realized creation - New Yorker Long Description Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whiteheads first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines twenty-first-century engineering feats with nineteenth-century pork-barrel politics. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical ideal, and Lila Mae Watson, the citys first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility.When Number Eleven of the newly completed Fanny Briggs Memorial Building goes into deadly free-fall just hours after Lila Mae has signed off on it, using the controversial Intuitionist method of ascertaining elevator safety, both Intuitionists and Empiricists recognize the set-up, but may be willing to let Lila Mae take the fall in an election year.As Lila Mae strives to exonerate herself in this urgent adventure full of government spies, underworld hit men, and seductive double agents, behind the action, always, is the Idea. Lila Maes quest is mysteriously entwined with existence of heretofore lost writings by James Fulton, father of Intuitionism, a giant of vertical thought. If she is able to find and reveal his plan for the perfect, next-generation elevator, the city as it now exists may instantly become obsolescent. Review Quote The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man and Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye - TimeIngenious and starkly original . . . Literary reputations may not always rise and fall as predictably as elevators, bit if theres any justice in the world of fiction, Colson Whiteheads should be heading toward the upper floors - New York Times Book ReviewMagical . . . THE INTUITIONIST ranks alongside Catch-22 , V, The Bluest Eye and other groundbreaking first novels . . . Whitehead shares Hellers sense of the absurd, Pynchons operatic expansiveness and Morrisons deconstruction of race and racism - San Francisco ChronicleWhiteheads prose is graceful and often lyrical, and his elevator underworld is a complex, lovingly realized creation - New Yorker Promotional "Headline" The marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected debut novel from the author of The Underground Railroad . Details ISBN0708898475 Author Colson Whitehead Pages 272 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Year 2017 ISBN-10 0708898475 ISBN-13 9780708898475 Format Paperback Imprint Fleet Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Media Book DEWEY 813.6 Language English UK Release Date 2017-05-04 Publication Date 2017-05-04 Audience General NZ Release Date 2017-04-25 AU Release Date 2017-04-25 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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