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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:

Colson Whitehead (Nueva York, 1969) es autor de las novelas La intuicionista, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt y Sag Harbor, y también de una colección de ensayos, El coloso de Nueva York. Ha publicado artículos en The New York Times, Granta, Harper" s y The New Yorker. Galardonado con un Whiting Writers" Award, ganador de una MacArthur Fellowship y de una beca de investigación en el Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, vive en la ciudad de Nueva York. Para escribir Zona Uno, Colson Whitehead se inspiró en varias películas de los años sesenta y setenta, entre ellas Taxi Driver, El planeta de los simios y La noche de los muertos vivientes.

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

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