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.” Cracks that are getting bigger all the time… Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. The book description from the publisher describes it best: “Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead-the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner-is a novel of literary fiction based in the crime world of 1960s Harlem, New York.
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