columnist and music critic for the Village Voice) to create a tasty literary gumbo: familiar yet exotic, alternately tender, touching and laugh-out-loud funny. Sag Harbor blends all of Whitehead’s thematic ingredients and adds a dollop of pop culture references (he was a T.V. Alternately sweet, sassy and sardonic, it is an impressionistic cityscape that celebrates the people, places and vibes that make New York City one helluva town. His third book, The Colossus of New York (2004) shows a completely different side of this gifted writer. Like Philip Roth a generation earlier, Whitehead writes elegantly and eloquently about what it feels like to be an upwardly mobile outsider in pursuit of the American dream.Īlready a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize nomination, Whitehead’s first two acclaimed novels, The Intuitionist (1998) and John Henry Days (2001), though very different in tone and topic, are both about high-achieving African Americans taking on the stereotypical status quo, surpassing the white man at his own game and eventually paying a high price for that success. $24.95.Ĭolson Whitehead is rapidly emerging as one of the major literary voices of the new millennium.
0 kommentar(er)
