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Colson Whitehead is the author of the novels The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and Sag Harbor. He has also written a book of about his hometown, a collection of essays called The Colossus of New York. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Granta, Harper’s, and the New Yorker. A recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a MacArthur grant, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, he lives in New York City.
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Apex Hides the Hurt
A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Apex Hides the Hurt
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: eBook
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $11.99
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Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: eBook
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $11.99
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The Colossus of New York
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $14.95
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.
A masterful evocation of the city... Read more >
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $14.95
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.
A masterful evocation of the city... Read more >
The Colossus of New York
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: eBook, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: eBook, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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The Intuitionist
A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $15.00
Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. This marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected novel, set in the curious world of elevator inspection, portrays a universe parallel to our own, where matters of morality, politics, and race reveal unexpected ironies.
"Ingenious and... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $15.00
Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. This marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected novel, set in the curious world of elevator inspection, portrays a universe parallel to our own, where matters of morality, politics, and race reveal unexpected ironies.
"Ingenious and... Read more >
The Intuitionist
A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: eBook, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 23, 2012
Price: $11.99
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A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: eBook, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 23, 2012
Price: $11.99
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John Henry Days
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $15.95
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
Colson Whitehead’s eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it’s the story of a disaffected, middle-aged... Read more >
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $15.95
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
Colson Whitehead’s eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it’s the story of a disaffected, middle-aged... Read more >
John Henry Days
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: eBook, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $11.99
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Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: eBook, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $11.99
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Sag Harbor
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $15.95
From the award-winning author of John Henry Days and The Intuitionist: a tender, hilarious, and supremely original novel about coming-of-age in the 80s.
Benji Cooper is one of the few black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a... Read more >
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $15.95
From the award-winning author of John Henry Days and The Intuitionist: a tender, hilarious, and supremely original novel about coming-of-age in the 80s.
Benji Cooper is one of the few black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a... Read more >
Sag Harbor
A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $24.95
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... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $24.95
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... Read more >
Sag Harbor
A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $11.99
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A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $11.99
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Zone One
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $15.00
A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One. Mark Spitz is... Read more >
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $15.00
A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One. Mark Spitz is... Read more >
Zone One
A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $25.95
In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.
Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $25.95
In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.
Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government... Read more >
Zone One
A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $11.99
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A Novel
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $11.99
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