Name: John Henry Days
ISBN: 9783446262348

Colson Whitehead

In einem Kaff in West Virginia findet ein Festival zu Ehren des legendären Volkshelden John Henry statt. Als der junge Journalist J. Sutter und seine Feunde dort erscheinen, treffen zwei Welten aufeinander. Ein witziges und zugleich beunruhigendes Porträt der amerikanischen Gesellschaft, laut Jonathan Franzen "unwiderstehlich geschrieben".

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John Henry Days

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad 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.

Daryl Houston

I had to burn through this one pretty quickly because my kindle loan from the library was about to run out, but I liked it a lot even no doubt having missed a lot for having read hastily. I thought it was well put together and nicely written, and it for sure keeps me interested in Whitehead (this is the fifth of his that I've read).

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