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Genre/Form: | Detective and mystery fiction Domestic fiction Fiction Historical fiction Novels |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Whitehead, Colson, 1969- Harlem shuffle New York : Doubleday, [2021] (DLC) 2020044657. |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Colson Whitehead |
ISBN: | 9780385545136 0385545134 |
OCLC Number: | 1333851955 |
Description: | 318 pages ; 25 cm. |
Other Titles: | Harlem shuffle. |
Responsibility: | Colson Whitehead. |
Abstract:
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. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his faȧde 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. 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.
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