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Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. This marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected novel, set in the curious world of elevator inspection, portrays a universe parallel to our own, where matters of morality, politics, and race reveal unexpected ironies.



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Colson Whitehead

COLSON WHITEHEAD is the #1 bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for and , which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City. is the first book in The Harlem Trilogy. The second, , will be published in 2023.



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