The Intuitionist: A Novel
 

The Intuitionist: A Novel

by Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. This marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected novel, set in the curious world of elevator inspection, portrays a universe parallel to our own, where matters of morality, politics, and race reveal unexpected ironies. (read review)

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garf
  • Rated 5 stars

This book is raw creative genius packed with urban eloquence and racial politics. Colson Whitehead is a singular writer with an unstopppable imagination

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Mike S
  • Rated 2 stars

I only got half way through this book before finally having to set it down. While I love Whitehead's use of the two methods of evaluating elevators (empiricism and intuitionism) his too-obvious use of race merely cloudys the water. In my opinion, he could have made a great statement about prejudice and fear of change by focusing solely the two approaches, rather than throwing a race card into it. Also, he often goes into a long discourse into matters that take the reader far from the...

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  • Rated 4 stars
 

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