{"product_id":"harlem-shuffle-9780708899465","title":"Harlem Shuffle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e''Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eColson Whitehead's dazzling new thriller\u003c\/b\u003e...In \u003ci\u003eHarlem Shuffle\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWhitehead flexes his literary muscles further, \u003cb\u003eextending the boundaries and expectations of crime writing\u003c\/b\u003e. The book\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis also a social drama interrogating the nature of prejudice and how an environment limits ambition. * Guardian, Book of the Day *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGloriously entertaining\u003c\/b\u003e...a zingy social drama, that combines flights of high comedy with reflections on the nature of black self-help and black empowerment in America. \u003cb\u003eA more purely enjoyable novel is unlikely to emerge this year\u003c\/b\u003e * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhitehead's latest book, \u003ci\u003eHarlem Shuffle\u003c\/i\u003e, finds its centre of gravity in Harlem, New York,transporting readers to the precipice of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a moment when Harlem uprisings were remaking the literal and political landscape.\u003cb\u003eFrom here he crafts a brilliant crime novel that doubles as a meditation on the nature of black geography...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is Carney's effort to reconcile the straight and the crooked, the desire to strive for a homeon the river, and the pull of the criminal underbelly, that propels the book forward\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWildly entertaining...Whitehead also delivers a devastating, historically grounded indictment of the separate and unequal lives of Blacks and whites in mid-20th century New York.\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eThe plot he devised for\u003ci\u003e Harlem Shuffle\u003c\/i\u003e offered a new, high-geared narrative engine to play with, but it also gave him a way to explore ideas about the slippery nature of morality, power (and who holds it), and the social hierarchies of criminal subcultures * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sizzling heist novel set in civil rights-era Harlem\u003c\/b\u003e . . . It's a superlative story, but the most impressive achievement is Whitehead's loving depiction of a Harlem 60 years gone, which lands as detailed and vivid as Joyce's Dublin. \u003cb\u003eDon't be surprised if this one wins Whitehead another major award\u003c\/b\u003e * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhitehead adds another genre to an ever-diversifying portfolio with his first crime novel, and it's a corker\u003c\/b\u003e... Whitehead delivers a portrait of Harlem in the early '60s, culminating with the Harlem Riot of 1964, that is brushed with lovingly etched detail and \u003cb\u003efeatures a wonderful panoply of characters who spring to full-bodied life, blending joy, humor, and tragedy. A triumph on every level\u003c\/b\u003e * Booklist, Starred Review *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404038480215,"sku":"9780708899465","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780708899465.jpg?v=1730485245","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/harlem-shuffle-9780708899465","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}