- Elevators, African Americans, Fiction, African American women
Who tampered with the elevator? The mundane job of elevator inspection becomes a mysterious tale of intrigue. Whitehead weaves a beautiful narrative featuring an independent protagonist who elevates herself from the racism she faces in this noir mystery.
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- Author
- Colson Whitehead
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Granta Books, Oscar mondadori, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Italian, German, English
- ISBN
- 9781664409736
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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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