by Colson Whitehead · Granta Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862072367
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«The Intuitionist» is the speculative fiction novel by Colson Whitehead, published by Granta Books in paperback (208 pages, in English).
In a parallel world, elevator inspectors are divided into empiricists and intuitionists. Lila Mae Watson, the first Black female inspector, is the most accurate; when an elevator collapses on her round, the investigation uncovers sabotage, internal struggles, and social critique.
Debut novel by Colson Whitehead, originally published on January 14, 1999, in English. It falls within contemporary literary fiction.
For mystery readers interested in novels with social and racial undertones.
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
