I'd probably give this a 3.5 (I should re-scale my reviews, because if something is a one-star, I don't finish it, and thus I have no one-star reviews) based on the writing, but it falls in the category of something I really have no interest in reading again, one of my personal criteria for a 4/5...
What it lacks in dramatic happening it makes up for in thick description. At times this latter quality bogs the story down, but once can get invested in the rhythm. In some ways Sag Harbor is an anti-coming-of-age novel. There is no great epiphany. Our hero doesn't triumph and get all the treasur...
I came to Colson Whitehead by way of zombies.Colson Whitehead, writer of award-nominated books, including National Book Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and New York Times Notable Book of the Year; contributer to the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York...
"Talking about New York City is a way of talking about the world."If I was born/raised/living in NYC, I probably would be giving this a four- or five-star review. It's uniquely written—a book split up into short chapters on different locations and things that make up the city (JFK, Rain, Port Aut...
This is my first Colson Whitehead book and I liked it quite a bit. It is a patchwork novel, narrating characters and events from a range of times and places in American history: late 19th century as well as early, mid, and late 20th century - not in that order! These narratives loop backward and ...
This review may have very mild spoilers, so I think it's safe in that regard without any alerts, at least for anyone who reads other reviews of this book.The best place for me to start this review is with the novel’s location of Winthrop, which is a stand-in for America, and for which Apex is it’...
To the Andersons and the children?” Cora asked. Miss Lucy was sure that could be arranged. The family was fond of her, she said. “Did I do a bad job?” Cora thought she had made a fine adjustment to the more delicate rhythms of domestic work. She ran her thumb across the pads of her fingers. They ...