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This debut novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys is a dead-serious and seriously funny feat of the imagination. Its sidesplitting humour is accompanied by a sobering examination of race - how it causes people to act and what it causes them to believe about themselves and others. It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the centre of it. There are two warring factions within the department: The Empiricists, who work by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and The Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question, meditate, and intuit any defects. Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's watch, chaos ensues. "... a strikingly original and polished début ... seizes upon an unsung wonder in our midst, the elevator, and sings its history, its technology, its romance, ad

Who reads The Intuitionist : A Novel?

Author

Whitehead, Colson

Publisher

Anchor Books, a Division of Random House Inc

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385492997

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, History, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.73 / 5 (5,281 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14