Whitehead, Colson
The Intuitionist
- ISBN 13:
- 9780708898475
- author:
- Whitehead, Colson
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Fleet
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions:
- 19.5 x 13.2 x 1.8 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 8 working days
Description
A debut novel by Colson Whitehead, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, introduces an important American writer. This critically acclaimed novel is one of America's best-loved novels and has been named as such by PBS's The Great American Read. In the Department of Elevator Inspectors, a major metropolitan city is plagued by calamity. Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector, finds herself at the center of it all. Two factions within the department are at odds: the Empiricists, who work by the book, and the Intuitionists, who rely on instinct to detect defects. Lila Mae is an Intuitionist with a high accuracy rate, but when an elevator goes into freefall during her watch, chaos ensues. As Lila Mae investigates the crash, she becomes embroiled in a search for missing excerpts from the notebooks of Intuitionism's founder, James Fulton. The notebooks describe the "black box," a perfect elevator that could revolutionize the city. What Lila Mae uncovers will change her life forever.