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Can I read Harlem Shuffle on EtoBox?
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead, Yannick García is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Harlem Shuffle about?
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is “fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel" (San Francisco Chronicle)."Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbours 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."Though it’s a slightly slow starter, Harlem Shuffle has dialogue that crackles, a final third that nearly explodes, hangouts that invite even if they’re Chock Full o’ Nuts and characters you won’t forget even if they don’t stick around for more than a few pages." - Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFinalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize For FictionHarlem Shuffle’s ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It’s a family saga masquerading as
Who reads Harlem Shuffle?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Colson Whitehead, Yannick García
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385547758
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (12,955 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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