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From the MacArthur and Whiting Award--winning author of John Henry Days andThe Intuitionist comes a new, brisk, comic tour de force about identity,history, and the adhesive bandage industryWhen the citizens of Winthrop needed a new name for their town, they did whatanyone would do--they hired a consultant.The protagonist of Apex Hides the Hurt is a nomenclature consultant.
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- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Colson Whitehead
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 211
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781846880056
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Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. His works include 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. **Source**: [Colson Whitehead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead) on Wikipedia.
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