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Apex Hides the Hurt

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This "wickedly funny" (The Boston Globe) New York Times Notable Book from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry.

The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town’s aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realize, is a nomenclature consultant. And, it turns out, the consultant needs them. But in a culture overwhelmed by marketing, the name is everything and our hero’s efforts may result in not just a new name for the town but a new and subtler truth about it as well.
Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: January 9, 2007

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780307279781
  • Release date: January 9, 2007

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780307279781
  • File size: 629 KB
  • Release date: January 9, 2007

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

This "wickedly funny" (The Boston Globe) New York Times Notable Book from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry.

The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town’s aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realize, is a nomenclature consultant. And, it turns out, the consultant needs them. But in a culture overwhelmed by marketing, the name is everything and our hero’s efforts may result in not just a new name for the town but a new and subtler truth about it as well.
Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

Expand title description text