![]() ![]() ![]() Heck, the guy had written two Pulitzer Prize winners right before this novel, The Underground Railroad (2016) and The Nickel Boys (2019.) This book, unlike its predecessors, isn't a serious and maddening book about slavery and its tentacles, though the book contains plenty of racism and classism, it is a crime novel with racism nibbling at the corners. Review: I was predisposed to like Harlem Shuffle because I am such a fan of the author, Colson Whitehead. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. Vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, Plan to rob the Hotel Theresa-the “Waldorf of Harlem”-and volunteers He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn’tĪsk questions, either. Few people know that he descended from a full-time crook, his father.Įspecially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousinįreddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn’t ask Summary: Ray Carney owns a furniture store in Harlem and makes enough money to support his family but not enough money to move his family out of the rundown apartment dominated by the sounds of the above-ground subway train which runs nearby. It simply meant that he knew how things worked in that particular line. His cousin Freddie brought him on the heist one hot night in early June.Ĭarney's father was crooked, but that didn't make him so. ![]() Title: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead ![]()
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