The Intuitionist
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.It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae… Celý popis ↓
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The Intuitionist
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.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. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's watch, chaos ensues. It's 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.
Parametre
- Výrobca
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishi
- Autor
- Colson Whitehead
- Počet strán
- 256
- Rok vydania
- 2005
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