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Apex Hides the Hurt
Contributor(s): Whitehead, Colson (Author)
ISBN: 1400031265     ISBN-13: 9781400031269
Publisher: Anchor Books
OUR PRICE:   $14.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2007
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Annotation: From the MacArthur and Whiting Award-winning author of "John Henry Days" and "The Intuitionist" comes a new, brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry--in a brilliant and wry satire of contemporary culture.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Satire
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 224 pages
 
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This New York Times Notable Book from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry.

The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town's aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realize, is a nomenclature consultant. And, it turns out, the consultant needs them. But in a culture overwhelmed by marketing, the name is everything and our hero's efforts may result in not just a new name for the town but a new and subtler truth about it as well.

Look for Colson Whitehead's new novel, Harlem Shuffle, coming this September