| International Standard Book Number |
9780385550512 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780385550505 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0385550502 hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.
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| Title Statement |
Cool machine : the Harlem trilogy bk. 3 / Colson Whitehead.
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| Edition Statement |
First Doubleday hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Doubleday, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
352 pages ; 25 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Ray Carney
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| Series Statement |
Harlem trilogy ; bk. 03
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| General Note |
Ray Carney bk. 3
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| Summary, Etc. |
"1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture's Dealer of the Month. When the banks won't give his beloved wife Elizabeth a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind. 1983. To some, Carney's friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath. To others, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he's feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, he's plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene. Luckily for him, whether you're uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of violence -- Pepper is a native speaker. 1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now, twenty years after Freddie's death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie's son from the violent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again will mean risking the safety and security he's spent decades building for his family, with only one shot to get it right. With his usual pitch-perfect prose Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to the Meadowlands, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead's vivid characters, it's what's below the surface that reveals the truth"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African Americans Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Theft Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Jewelry Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sales personnel Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
New York (N.Y.) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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