{"title":"Colson Whitehead","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"crook-manifesto","title":"Crook Manifesto","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHIGHLY ANTICIPATED OPRAH DAILY PICK FOR 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Whether in high literary form or entertaining, page-turner mode, the man is simply incapable of writing a bad book' IAN WILLIAMS, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGUARDIAN \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Whitehead has a talent for creating ambiguous, complex scenes that fix in your memory' \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEVENING STANDARD \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'When he moves into a new genre, he keeps the bones but does his own decorating' \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWASHINGTON POST \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead comes the thrilling and entertaining sequel to \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarlem Shuffle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1971 \u003c\/strong\u003e- Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on the straight and narrow. His only immediate need is Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May, so what harm could it do to hit up Munson, his old police contact and fixer extraordinaire? And suddenly, staying out of the game becomes more complicated - and deadly. When one of Ray's tenants is badly injured in a fire, he enlists the enduringly violent Pepper to look into how it started, leading the duo to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn scalpel-sharp prose and with unnerving clarity and wit, Colson Whitehead writes about a city that runs on cronyism, threats, ego, ambition, incompetence and even, sometimes, pride. \u003cem\u003eCrook Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a searching portrait of how families work in the face of indifference, chaos and hostility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263941493030,"sku":"crook-manifesto","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/04197ec2-8ad6-4b41-8fdd-4ef4691425f5.jpg?v=1701088966"},{"product_id":"harlem-shuffle","title":"Harlem Shuffle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFROM THE AUTHOR OF \u003cem\u003eTHE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD\u003c\/em\u003e (Now a major \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmazon Prime TV show)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eRay Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home.\u003cbr\u003eFew people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his fa?ade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSee, cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. \u003cbr\u003eThen Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa - the 'Waldorf of Harlem' - and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do, after all. Now Ray has to cater to a new clientele, one made up of shady cops on the take, vicious minions of the local crime lord, and numerous other Harlem lowlifes.\u003cbr\u003eThus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he starts to see the truth about who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHARLEM SHUFFLE is driven by an ingeniously intricate plot that plays out in a beautifully recreated Harlem of the early 1960s. 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But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide 'physical, intellectual and moral training' which will equip its inmates to become 'honorable and honest men'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear 'out back'. Stunned to find himself in this vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion, 'Throw us in jail, and we will still love you.' 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New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner\/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture's Dealer of the Month. When the banks won't give his beloved wife, Elizabeth, a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1983. To some, Carney's friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath. To others, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he's feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, he's plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene. 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