Zusatztext "The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye ." --Walter Kirn! Time "Ingenious and starkly original...Literary reputations may not always rise and fall as predictably as elevators! bit if there's any justice in the world of fiction! Colson Whitehead's should be heaing toward the upper floors." -- The New York Times Book Review "Magical. . . . The Intuitionist ranks alongside Catch-22 ! V ! The Bluest Eye and other groundbreaking first novels. . . . Whitehead shares Heller's sense of the absurd! Pynchon's operatic expansiveness and Morrison's deconstruction of race and racism." -- San Francisco Chronicle "The most engaging literary sleuthing you'll read this year. . . . What makes the novel so extraordinary is the ways in which Whitehead plays with notions of race." -- Newsweek "Whitehead's prose is graceful and often lyrical! and his elevator underworld is a complex! lovingly realized creation." -- The New Yorker " The Intuitionist is the story of a love affair with the steel and stone! machinery and architecture of the city. It's not a pretty love! but a working-class passion for the stench of humanity that its heroine! Lila Mae Watson! has made her own. But as always with love there is betrayal. This extraordinary novel is the first voice in a powerful chorus to come." --Walter Mosley Informationen zum Autor Colson Whitehead Klappentext This debut novel by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors! and Lila Mae Watson! the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department! is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists! who work by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and the Intuitionists! who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question! meditate! and intuit any defects. Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and! it just so happens! has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's watch! chaos ensues. It's an election year in the Elevator Guild! and the good-old-boy Empiricists would love nothing more than to assign the blame to an Intuitionist. But Lila Mae is never wrong. The sudden appearance of excerpts from the lost notebooks of Intuitionism's founder! James Fulton! has also caused quite a stir. The notebooks describe Fulton's work on the "black box!" a perfect elevator that could reinvent the city as radically as the first passenger elevator did when patented by Elisha Otis in the nineteenth century. When Lila Mae goes underground to investigate the crash! she becomes involved in the search for the portions of the notebooks that are still missing and uncovers a secret that will change her life forever. Leseprobe It's a new elevator, freshly pressed to the rails, and it's not built to fall this fast. * * * She doesn't know what to do with her eyes. The front door of the building is too scarred and gouged to look at, and the street behind her is improbably empty, as if the city had been evacuated and she's the only one who didn't hear about it. There is always the game at moments like this to distract her. She opens her leather field binder and props it on her chest. The game gets harder the farther back she goes. Most of the inspectors from the last decade or so are still with the Guild and are easy to identify: LMT, MG, BP, JW. So far she does...

"The freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye."
--Walter Kirn, Time

"Ingenious and starkly original...Literary reputations may not always rise and fall as predictably as elevators, bit if there's any justice in the world of fiction, Colson Whitehead's should be heaing toward the upper floors."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Magical. . . . The Intuitionist ranks alongside Catch-22, V, The Bluest Eye and other groundbreaking first novels. . . . Whitehead shares Heller's sense of the absurd, Pynchon's operatic expansiveness and Morrison's deconstruction of race and racism."  --San Francisco Chronicle

"The most engaging literary sleuthing you'll read this year. . . . What makes the novel so extraordinary is the ways in which Whitehead plays with notions of race."
--Newsweek

"Whitehead's prose is graceful and often lyrical, and his elevator underworld is a complex, lovingly realized creation."
--The New Yorker
  
"The Intuitionist is the story of a love affair with the steel and stone, machinery and architecture of the city. It's not a pretty love, but a working-class passion for the stench of humanity that its heroine, Lila Mae Watson, has made her own. But as always with love there is betrayal. This extraordinary novel is the first voice in a powerful chorus to come."
--Walter Mosley

Autorentext

Colson Whitehead

Klappentext

This debut novel by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and the Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question, meditate, and intuit any defects.

Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's watch, chaos ensues. It's an election year in the Elevator Guild, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would love nothing more than to assign the blame to an Intuitionist. But Lila Mae is never wrong.

The sudden appearance of excerpts from the lost notebooks of Intuitionism's founder, James Fulton, has also caused quite a stir. The notebooks describe Fulton's work on the "black box," a perfect elevator that could reinvent the city as radically as the first passenger elevator did when patented by Elisha Otis in the nineteenth century. When Lila Mae goes underground to investigate the crash, she becomes involved in the search for the portions of the notebooks that are still missing and uncovers a secret that will change her life forever.

Zusammenfassung
**This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
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It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and the Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question, meditate, and intuit any defects.

Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire depa…