Search results
23 de jun. de 2001 · Aquí nos gustaría mostrarte una descripción, pero el sitio web que estás mirando no lo permite.
14 de may. de 2002 · John Henry Days is an acrobatic, intellectually dazzling, and laugh-out-loud funny book that will be read and talked about for years to come. From the Back Cover Colson Whitehead's eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him.
3 de jun. de 2009 · John Henry Days. Colson Whitehead. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 3, 2009 - Fiction - 400 pages. 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).
John Henry Days thus becomes a sprawling investigation not only of how the John Henry legend has been made and remade, but also of why these revisions have come to pass. If, as Wood claims, the novel is a chiefly a satire of J. and his fellow journalists as “knights of negative faith” then one should note that their would-be champion ...
24 de feb. de 2022 · The structure of the novel was interesting. The main narrative of the 1996 John Henry days festival weekend provided backbone, but Whitehead jumped through history showing us how the folk tale impacted people over 120 years. Sometimes we visited them only once. Many chapters could stand as a short story on their own, beautifully written.
In John Henry Days, Colson Whitehead builds upon this simple tale to create a contrapuntal masterpiece. The narrative revolves around J. Sutter, a young black journalist. Sutter is a “junketeer,” a freeloading hack who roams from one publicity event to the next, abusing his expense account and meeting for biweekly sex with a publicist named ...
Acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead’s novel John Henry Days (2001) is a postmodern social satire that weaves together several narrative threads to create a novel “with encyclopedic aspirations akin to Moby Dick or Ulysses,” according to David Foster Wallace.Whitehead bases his novel in part on the real-life printing of the Folk Hero stamp series that included the ...
