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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.
- 272 (hardback edition)
- Colson Whitehead
- January 1999
- Anchor Books
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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1 de ene. de 2001 · Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist is a mystery about…elevator inspectors? Or is it about an ideological conflict between opposing schools of elevator theory (the Empiricists and the Intuitionists) which surfaces when an elevator deemed safe by elevator inspector, Lila Mae Watson (an Intuitionist) goes into freefall?
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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 dead-serious and seriously funny feat of the imagination, The Intuitionist is a brilliant debut by an exceptional young talent. Its sidesplitting humor is accompanied by a sobering...
The Intuitionist. Colson Whitehead. Little, Brown Book Group, May 4, 2017 - Fiction - 272 pages. Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first novel that...
About The Intuitionist. This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read • One of The Atlantic’s Great ...
