John Henry Days
  • Published:
    May-2001 (Hardcover)
    May-2002 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    385
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From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is "funny and wise and sumptuously written" (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review).

Colson Whitehead's triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it's the story of a disaffected, middle-aged black journalist on a mission to set a record for junketeering who attends the annual John Henry Days festival. It is also a high-velocity thrill ride through the tunnel where American legend gives way to American pop culture, replete with p. r. flacks, stamp collectors, blues men , and turn-of-the-century song pluggers.

John Henry Days
is an acrobatic, intellectually dazzling, and laugh-out-loud funny book that will be read and talked about for years to come.

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    •  
    • May-2002
    • Anchor
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0385498209
    • ISBN13: 9780385498203
    •  
    • Jun-2002
    • Fourth Estate (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1841155705
    • ISBN13: 9781841155708
    • First Edition
    • May-2001
    • Doubleday
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0385498195
    • ISBN13: 9780385498197
    •  
    • Jun-2009
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307486672
    • ISBN13: 9780307486677
    •  
    • Jun-2009
    • Fourth Estate (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 000747654X
    • ISBN13: 9780007476541
    •  
    • Jun-2002
    • Wheeler
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1587242311
    • ISBN13: 9781587242311
    • Large Print



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