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The Intuitionist is a 1999 speculative fiction novel by American writer Colson Whitehead. The Intuitionist takes place in a city (implicitly, New York) full of skyscrapers and other buildings requiring vertical transportation in the form of elevators.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Two warring factions in the Department of Elevator Inspectors in a bustling metropolis vie for dominance: the Empiricists, who go by the book and rigorously check every structural and mechanical detail, and the Intuitionists, whose observational methods involve meditation and instinct.
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4 de ene. de 2000 · The Intuitionist is the story of bias and racism in the world and a profession one would not think of - city elevator inspection. A woman of color becomes the first woman of color to get a badge as a City Inspector when new elevators were going up and down all over the city.
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The Intuitionist. Colson Whitehead. Anchor Books, 1999 - Fiction - 255 pages. It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the...
4 de may. de 2017 · Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines twenty-first-century engineering feats...
- 0708898483, 9780708898482
- Colson Whitehead
- Little, Brown Book Group, 2017
4 de ene. de 2000 · But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's watch, chaos ensues. It's an election year in the Elevator Guild, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would love...
A 25th anniversary edition of the debut novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Underground Railroad. It follows Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector, as she investigates a mysterious elevator crash and a secret notebook.
