Intuitionist, The by Whitehead Colson - 2000

Anchor Books. As New with no dust jacket. 2000. Trade Paperback. 0385493002 . A Trade Paperback in As New condition. Read once! . "Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead's odd, sly, and ultimately irresistible first novel. The setting is an unnamed though obviously New Yorkish high-rise city, the time less convincingly future than deliciously other, as it combines 21st-century engineering feats with 19th-century pork-barrel politics and smoky working-class pubs. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical idea, and Lila Mae Watson, the city's first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility. "; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 255 pages .