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14 set 2021 · Ray Carney is a furniture salesman and a crook who gets involved in a heist of the Hotel Theresa in 1960s Harlem. This is the first book in The Harlem Trilogy, a series of historical fiction and social commentary by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad.
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Harlem Shuffle is a 2021 novel by American novelist Colson Whitehead. It is the follow-up to Whitehead's 2019 novel The Nickel Boys, which earned him his second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is a work of crime fiction and a family saga that takes place in Harlem between 1959 and 1964. It was published by Doubleday on September 14, 2021.
"Harlem Shuffle" is an R&B song written and originally recorded by the duo Bob & Earl in 1963. The song describes a dance called the “Harlem Shuffle”, and mentions several other contemporary dances of the early 1960s, including the Monkey Shine, the Limbo, the Hitch hike, the Slide, and the Pony.
9 dic 2021 · Harlem Shuffle è anche il titolo originale de Il ritmo di Harlem, nuovo romanzo del due volte Premio Pulitzer Colson Whitehead (Mondadori, 2021), tradotto in italiano da Silvia Pareschi, che al noto quartiere di New York ha dedicato un ritratto sincero e avvincente.
7 dic 2021 · A novel by Colson Whitehead about Ray Carney, a furniture salesman and a striver who dabbles in crime in 1950s and 60s Harlem. The review praises the novel's humor, energy, and social commentary, and compares it to a hard-boiled crime story.
15 set 2021 · The versatile novelist moves away from the heavier themes that won him a brace of Pulitzer Prizes in Harlem Shuffle, a heist caper starring a mostly-upright furniture salesman with a criminal...
14 set 2021 · Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.
