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Ein namenloser Fremder kommt nach Winthrop, einer verschlafenen Kleinstadt im Mittleren Westen. Er ist erfolgreicher Werbetexter und soll der Stadt zu einem neuen Namen verhelfen. Für einen Mann, der einen Anflug von Unsterblichkeit verspürt, wenn er einen von ihm erfundenen Slogan auf einem Plastikbecher liest, sollte die Aufgabe nicht allzu schwer sein. Doch die Vergangenheit mitsamt den alten Kränkungen und Wunden lässt sich nicht einfach d...

Paperback edition of the witty zombie novel, from the author of "Sag Harbor". Mark Spitz is one of a civilian team seeking to repopulate lower Manhattan, but he's suffering from Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder.

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In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise and the heartbreak of New York, composing a love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in - or spent time in - this great city.

From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground RailroadBenji spends most of the year as one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, going to roller disco bar mitzvahs, desperately trying to find his place in the social hierarchy.

Una pandemia ha devastato la Terra, lasciando gli esseri umani divisi in due categorie: i vivi e i morti viventi. Guidati da un governo provvisorio stabilitosi a Buffalo, gli americani cercano di restaurare la civiltà. Il loro primo obiettivo è spazzare via da Manhattan le ultime sacche di resistenza, rappresentate da soggetti infetti che non si sono trasformati in zombie ma si trovano in uno stato semicatatonico. Mark Spitz fa parte di una de...

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. ...

Het was een opdracht die hij niet kon weigeren: een verslag schrijven over de World Series of Poker. Dat hij het spel alleen als amateur kende, hoefde geen belemmering te vormen - en dat was het ook niet. Colson Whitehead duikt met volle kracht in het spel, verbaast zich op geestige wijze over de merkwaardige subcultuur waarin hij zich bevindt, en ondertussen wordt hij ook nog eens goed in het spel. En hij vraagt zich af: Hoe kan dat? Een Har...

ENJOY THE ECSTASY OF AGONY. Amy and Jordan are just like us: hoping for the best, even when things go from bad to worse. They are menaced by bears, beheaded by ghosts, and hunted by the cops, but still they struggle on, bickering and reconciling, scraping together the rent and trying to find a decent movie. It's the perfect solace for anxious modern minds, courtesy of one of the great innovators of American comics. Now if only Amy's skin would...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad 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 a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units...

In Colson Whiteheads 'De ondergrondse spoorweg' is Cora slavin op een katoenplantage in Georgia. Haar helse leven staat op het punt om nog erger te worden: de wrede eigenaar heeft zijn oog op haar laten vallen. Ze besluit om te vluchten, en met hulp van de Ondergrondse Spoorweg (in Amerika het begrip voor het clandestiene netwerk van antislavernijactivisten) begint ze een lange, huiveringwekkende reis door de zuidelijke staten van Amerika rich...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora, an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood-where even great...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora, an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood-where even great...

This New York Times Notable Book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry. 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 ch...

Colson Whitehead gioca a carte da sempre. Piccole poste tra amici, perlopiù scrittori con cui vince facilmente grazie alla sua "faccia da poker". Quando "Grantland", una rivista sportiva, si offre di pagargli l'iscrizione alle World Series di Texas Hold'em di Las Vegas, capisce però che deve fare sul serio. Così si sottopone a un duro allenamento per resistere ai sette giorni di torneo che lo aspettano, alla tensione e ai buffet dei casinò. "L...

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From the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad: 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 small community of African American professionals have built a world of their own. The summer of '85 won't be without its usual trials and tr...

In a dazzling original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York City, composing a love song that will entrance anyone who has lived, or spent time in the city. In a series of vignettes, meditations, and personal memories, Whitehead conveys with almost uncanny immediacy the feelings and thoughts of longtime residents, and of newcomers who dre...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground RailroadColson Whitehead's triumphant 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 black journalist on a mission to set a record for junketeering who attends the annual John Henry Days festival. It is also a high-...

In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates 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 that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city's inner and outer landscapes in a series...