Книга: The Intuitionist (Colson Whitehead); Fleet, 2017

Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines twenty-first-century engineering feats with nineteenth-century pork-barrel politics. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical ideal, and Lila Mae Watson, the city's first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility.When Number Eleven of the newly completed Fanny Briggs Memorial Building goes into deadly free-fall just hours after Lila Mae has signed off on it, using the controversial 'Intuitionist' method of ascertaining elevator safety, both Intuitionists and Empiricists recognize the set-up, but may be willing to let Lila Mae take the fall in an election year.As Lila Mae strives to exonerate herself in this urgent adventure full of government spies, underworld hit men, and seductive double agents, behind the action, always, is the Idea. Lila Mae's quest is mysteriously entwined with existence of heretofore lost writings by James Fulton, father of Intuitionism, a giant of vertical thought. If she is able to find and reveal his plan for the perfect, next-generation elevator, the city as it now exists may instantly become obsolescent.
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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	978-0-70-889847-5
Автор(ы)	Colson Whitehead
Автор	Whitehead C.
Авторы	Whitehead C.
Вес	0.22кг
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2017
Год публикации	2017
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Fleet
Издательство	Fleet
Кол-во страниц	255
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	255
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Переплет	Мягкий переплёт
Переплёт	Мягкий
Раздел	Книги на английском языке
Тип обложки	мягкая
Формат	127x197мм
Язык	Английский