The intuitionist
Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines 21st-century engineering feats with 19th-century pork-barrel politics. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical ideal, and Lila...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London
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2017
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| Ausgabe: | Paperback edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines 21st-century engineering feats with 19th-century pork-barrel politics. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical ideal, and Lila Mae Watson, the city's first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility |
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| Beschreibung: | 255 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 0708898475 0-7088-9847-5 9780708898475 978-0-7088-9847-5 |