Cool machine : a novel / Colson Whitehead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.

Series:

Whitehead, Colson, 1969- Harlem trilogy ; 3.

[Harlem Trilogy] ; [3]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

Jewelry--Fiction.

Jewelry.

Sales personnel--Fiction.

Sales personnel.

Theft--Fiction.

Theft.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

Stealing--Fiction.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

Fiction

Novels

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

352 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First Doubleday hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, : Doubleday, 2026.

Summary:

"1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture's Northeast Regional Dealer of the Month. When the banks won't give his beloved wife, Elizabeth, a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind. 1983. To some, Carney's friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath. To others, he's a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he's feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, he's plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene. Luckily for him, whether you're uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of violence -- Pepper is a native speaker. 1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now, twenty years after Freddie's death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie's son from the violent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again will mean risking the safety and security he's spent decades building for his family, with only one shot to get it right. With his usual pitch-perfect prose, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to Sugar Hill, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead's vivid characters, it's what's below the surface that reveals the truth."-- Book jacket flap.

Contents:

Part one. City at night (1981)

Part two. Here comes Sue Simmons (1983)

Part three. No radio (1986)

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version Whitehead, Colson, 1969- Cool machine

ISBN:

9780385550505

0385550502

9780385553001

0385553005

OCLC:

1547291804