{"product_id":"cool-machine","title":"Cool Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Rejoice: the final instalment of the Harlem Trilogy is here'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the #1\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestselling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWhitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings 1980s New York to vivid, unforgettable life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner\/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture's Dealer of the Month. When the banks won't give his beloved wife, Elizabeth, a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1983. To some, Carney's friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath. To others, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he's feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, he's plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene. Luckily for him, whether you're uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of violence - Pepper is a native speaker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now, twenty years after Freddie's death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie's son from the violent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again will mean risking the safety and security he's spent decades building for his family, with only one shot to get it right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith his usual pitch-perfect prose, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCool Machine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to Sugar Hill, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead's vivid characters, it's what's below the surface that reveals the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It's about Harlem in the '80s. Colson Whitehead wrote three books about Harlem, one in the '60s, one in the '70s, and this is the last one. You do not need to have read the other two. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eColson Whitehead is the best there is, period\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eANN PATCHETT,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGOODHOUSEKEEPING\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Whitehead's gift for description and denigration is as potent as ever'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eINDEPENDENT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Novel of the month\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57349226594677,"sku":"978-0349727677","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/e59137ab-0601-48a9-a3f3-d01a1cb99e1e.jpg?v=1783689191","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.com\/products\/cool-machine","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}