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The intuitionist / Colson Whitehead.
LIBRA PS3573.H4768 I58 2000 copy 2
Available from offsite location
LIBRA PS3573.H4768 I58 2000
Available from offsite location
Van Pelt Library PS3573.H4768 I58 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Elevators--Inspection.
- Elevators.
- African American women--Fiction.
- African American women.
- Elevators--Inspection--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Anchor Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- An elevator inspector becomes the center of controversy when an elevator crashes. The inspector, Lila Mae Watson, is a black woman who inspects by intuition, as opposed to visual observation, and now she must prove her method was not at fault. A study of society's attitude to technology and a debut in fiction.
- ISBN:
- 0385493002
- 9780385493000
- OCLC:
- 43275143
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