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Whitehead's new novel, ''John Henry Days,'' not only features a male protagonist, a young freelance journalist named J. Sutter, but cannily engages the interior crisis of manhood in present-day America. Having saved his coming-of-age materials for his second book, Whitehead is able to place J.'s ...
15 de may. de 2001 · Thoughtful, amusing tale-spinning with, one imagines, serious film potential. Whitehead, author of the acclaimed Intuitionist (1998), returns with a hilarious, heart-tugging take on the evolution of the American folk hero John Henry—and on the theme of inevitability, or the power of fate. African-American J. Sutter is a “junketeer,” a ...
About John Henry Days. From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is “funny and wise and sumptuously written” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review). Colson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a ...
15 de may. de 2001 · According to legend, John Henry, a black laborer for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, was a man of superhuman strength and stamina. He proved his mettle in a contest with a steam drill, only to die of exhaustion moments after his triumph. In John Henry Days, Colson Whitehead transforms the simple ballad into a contrapuntal masterpiece.
15 de may. de 2001 · Whitehead manages, what's more, to wrest from the book's essentially static structure a lovely, satisfying ending. John Henry Days may end up haunting you the way 'The Ballad of John Henry' haunts its pages. The novel is an aleatory fugue on the difficulty of manhood in an age that measures a man by what he buys or what he wears, not by his ...
14 de may. de 2002 · According to one reviewer, in John Henry Days “there is an insistent parallel between the industrial or machine age to which John Henry was sacrificed and the digital information age to which J. is enslaved, in which information is used not to enlighten but to sell” [Maya Jaggi, “Railroad Blues”, The Guardian (London), June 23, 2001].
John Henry Days is a fictional novel written by American author Colson Whitehead in 2001. The novel is considered to be Whitehead's second full-length published work. John Henry Days is also a ...
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