CD Audiobook
Harlem Shuffle / Colson Whitehead.
Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked. To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn't ask where it comes from. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa, the 'Waldorf of Harlem', and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do. Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes.
" ... a loving depiction of a Harlem 60 years gone."--Publishers Weekly
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593455548
- ISBN: 0593455541
- Physical Description: 7 audio discs (540 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Penguin Random House Audio, 2021.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Release date: 09/14/2021. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Dion Graham. |
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| Subject: | African-American Interest. Historical. Suspense > Thriller. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Fiction. Audiobooks. Fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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| Burlington Public Library | CD WHITEHEA NOV 2021 | 39851001623819 | Audiobook | Copy hold | Available | - |