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Автор: Colson Whitehead
Название: The Underground Railroad
ISBN: 0708898408 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780708898406
Издательство: Little, Brown
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Цена: 5500 T
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Описание: From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave`s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

Автор: Whitehead Colson
Название: Underground Railroad
ISBN: 0708898394 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780708898390
Издательство: Little, Brown
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Цена: 8200 T
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Описание: From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave`s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

Автор: Whitehead, Colson
Название: The Underground Railroad
ISBN: 0525435700 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525435709
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 4200 T
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Автор: Colson Whitehead
Название: The Intuitionist
ISBN: 0708898475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780708898475
Издательство: Little, Brown
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Цена: 4920 T
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Описание: The marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected debut novel from the author of The Underground Railroad.

Автор: Whitehead Colson
Название: The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death
ISBN: 0345804333 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345804334
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 6110 T
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad

In 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It was the assignment of a lifetime, except for one hitch--he'd never played in a casino tournament before. With just six weeks to train, our humble narrator took the Greyhound to Atlantic City to learn the ways of high-stakes Texas Hold'em.
Poker culture, he discovered, is marked by joy, heartbreak, and grizzled veterans playing against teenage hotshots weaned on Internet gambling. Not to mention the not-to-be overlooked issue of coordinating Port Authority bus schedules with your kid's drop-off and pickup at school. Finally arriving in Vegas for the multimillion-dollar tournament, Whitehead brilliantly details his progress, both literal and existential, through the event's antes and turns, through its gritty moments of calculation, hope, and spectacle. Entertaining, ironic, and strangely profound, this epic search for meaning at the World Series of Poker is a sure bet.
An NPR Best Book of the Year

Автор: Colson Whitehead
Название: Zone One
ISBN: 0099570149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099570141
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is slowly being resettled.

Автор: Whitehead, Colson
Название: Apex: hides the hurt
ISBN: 1846880750 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846880759
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 5140 T
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Описание: A `nomenclature consultant` is summoned by the city authorities of Winthrop to decide on its new name. What name will the limping word-catcher finally choose, thus deciding the future of the whole town and population?

Автор: Whitehead Colson
Название: The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
ISBN: 0385537050 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385537056
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9520 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
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The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead's hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as "Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins."

On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime neighborhood poker player, Whitehead was given a $10,000 stake and an assignment from the online online magazine Grantland to see how far he could get in the World Series of Poker. But since it stems from the astonishing mind of Colson Whitehead (MacArthur Award-endorsed ), the book is a brilliant, hilarious, weirdly profound, and ultimately moving portrayal of--yes, it sounds overblown and ridiculous, but really --the human condition.

After weeks of preparation that included repeated bus trips to glamorous Atlantic City, and hiring a personal trainer to toughen him up for sitting at twelve hours a stretch, the author journeyed to the gaudy wonderland that is Las Vegas - the world's greatest "Leisure Industrial Complex" -- to try his luck in the multi-million dollar tournament. Hobbled by his mediocre playing skills and a lifelong condition known as "anhedonia" (the inability to experience pleasure) Whitehead did not - spoiler alert - win tens of millions of dollars. But he did chronicle his progress, both literal and existential, in this unbelievably funny, uncannily accurate social satire whose main target is the author himself.

Whether you've been playing cards your whole life, or have never picked up a hand, you're sure to agree that this book contains some of the best writing about beef jerky ever put to paper.

Автор: Colson Whitehead
Название: Sag harbor
ISBN: 0385527659 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385527651
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: 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 Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to catch glimpses of nudity on late-night cable TV. After a tragic mishap on his first day of high school—when Benji reveals his deep enthusiasm for the horror movie magazine Fangoria—his social doom is sealed for the next four years.
But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals have built a world of their own. Because their parents come out only on weekends, he and his friends are left to their own devices for three glorious months. And although he’s just as confused about this all-black refuge as he is about the white world he negotiates the rest of the year, he thinks that maybe this summer things will be different. If all goes according to plan, that is.
There will be trials and tribulations, of course. There will be complicated new handshakes to fumble through, and state-of-the-art profanity to master. He will be tested by contests big and small, by his misshapen haircut (which seems to have a will of its own), by the New Coke Tragedy of ’85, and by his secret Lite FM addiction. But maybe, with a little luck, things will turn out differently this summer.
In this deeply affectionate and fiercely funny coming-of-age novel, Whitehead—using the perpetual mortification of teenage existence and the desperate quest for reinvention—lithely probes the elusive nature of identity, both personal and communal.

Автор: Whitehead Colson
Название: The Underground Railroad
ISBN: 0385537034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385537032
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10290 T
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.

Автор: Whitehead Colson
Название: Zone One
ISBN: 0385528078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385528078
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9900 T
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Описание: 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 rebuild-ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern-ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street--aka Zone One--but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety--the "malfunctioning" stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives.

Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work-ing in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz's desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world.

And then things start to go wrong.

Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One bril-liantly subverts the genre's conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.

Автор: Whitehead, Colson
Название: Zone One
ISBN: 1846555981 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846555985
Издательство: Random House
Цена: 6850 T
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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 rebuild-ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern-ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street--aka Zone One--but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety--the "malfunctioning" stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives.
Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work-ing in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz's desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world.
And then things start to go wrong.
Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, "Zone One" bril-liantly subverts the genre's conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.

"From the Hardcover edition."