From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize
\nwinner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life
\n1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy
\n1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by
\nrampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory
\ncapitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner\/master fence Ray Carney has just
\nbeen named Sterling Furniture’s Dealer of the Month. When the banks won’t give his
\nbeloved wife, Elizabeth, a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on
\none last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.
\n1983. To some, Carney’s friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath. To
\nothers, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he’s feeling his age in his
\ntroubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to
\nElizabeth, he’s plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene.
\nLuckily for him, whether you’re uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of
\nviolence – Pepper is a native speaker.
\n1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now,
\ntwenty years after Freddie’s death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie’s son from the
\nviolent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again
\nwill mean risking the safety and security he’s spent decades building for his family, with
\nonly one shot to get it right.
\nWith his usual pitch-perfect prose, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where
\nshimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned
\ntunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over
\nthe city, from Windows on the World to Sugar Hill, to show that in New York, and in the
\nlives of Whitehead’s vivid characters, it’s what’s below the surface that reveals the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nwinner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life
\n1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy
\n1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by
\nrampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory
\ncapitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner\/master fence Ray Carney has just
\nbeen named Sterling Furniture’s Dealer of the Month. When the banks won’t give his
\nbeloved wife, Elizabeth, a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on
\none last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.
\n1983. To some, Carney’s friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath. To
\nothers, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he’s feeling his age in his
\ntroubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to
\nElizabeth, he’s plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene.
\nLuckily for him, whether you’re uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of
\nviolence – Pepper is a native speaker.
\n1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now,
\ntwenty years after Freddie’s death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie’s son from the
\nviolent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again
\nwill mean risking the safety and security he’s spent decades building for his family, with
\nonly one shot to get it right.
\nWith his usual pitch-perfect prose, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where
\nshimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned
\ntunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over
\nthe city, from Windows on the World to Sugar Hill, to show that in New York, and in the
\nlives of Whitehead’s vivid characters, it’s what’s below the surface that reveals the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":112360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[216,16428,26102,16450],"product_tag":[19722],"class_list":{"0":"post-112359","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fiction-hardback","7":"product_cat-pre-order-carousel","8":"product_cat-signed-and-special-editions","9":"product_cat-website-home-page-carousel","10":"product_tag-colson","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"sold-individually","15":"taxable","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n