The intuitionist
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2017
Book
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.
Main title:
The intuitionist / Colson Whitehead.
Author:
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Fleet, 2017.
Collation:
255 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Granta, 1999.
ISBN:
9780708898475 (pbk)9780708898482 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
302612