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Herlem Shuffle.

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Herlem Shuffle.

Sinopsis
Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked 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. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home.

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. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time.

Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn't ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn't ask questions, either.

Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa the Waldorf of Harlem and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do. Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes.

Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he begins to see who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs?

Biografía del autor:

<P <B Colson Whitehead</B nació en 1969 en Nueva York. Finalista del PEN/Hemingway con su primera novela, <I La intuicionista</I (2000), ha publicado media docena de novelas y el libro <I El coloso de Nueva York</I (2005). Fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer con <I John Henry Days</I (2011), finalista del PEN/Oakland Award con <I Apex Hides the Hurt</I (2006) y del PEN/Faulkner con <I Sag Harbor</I (2009). <I Zona Uno</I (2012) fue un bestseller para <I The New York Times</I , y en 2014 publicó <I The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death</I . <I El ferrocarril subterráneo</I es su última novela hasta la fecha y ha sido merecedora del Premio Pulitzer 2017, del National Book Award 2016, de la Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence y del Indies Choice Book Award de 2017. Colson Whitehead es profesor en las universidades de Columbia y Princeton, y ha recibido las becas Guggenheim y MacArthur.</P

Editorial PLUME

Fecha publicación 01-08-2022

Edición : 1

Número de páginas : 318

ISBN : 978-0-525-56727-1

Encuadernación: BOLSILLO RUSTICA

Tamaño:  0 x 0

Idioma: Inglés