Colson Whitehead's Top 3 Books

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Moving from his fiction bibliography towards his forays between the essayistic and the informative, Colson Whitehead has made a place among the great American writers. For an author like Colson, who soon shows that love for literature with its component of social commitment, the chronicle acquires relevance in ...

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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

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I don't know how many times, if at all, the fact that a writer repeats on the Pulitzer has happened. Colson Whitehead with the Pulitzer in 2017 and 2020 is already an idyll of a great creator, an honor that allows him to even show himself humble in ...

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The Colossus of New York, by Colson Whitehead

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Nobody better than a writer usually fiction like Colson Whitehead to present a city that lives between the reality of being a universal city and the fiction of becoming a cinematographic city par excellence. Colson's eyes are an incomparable tool for that viewing of the Big Apple as ...

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The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead

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The African-American author Colson Whitehead apparently abandons his tendency to the fantastic, addressed in recent works such as Zone One, to immerse himself fully in a story about freedom, survival, human cruelty and the struggle to overcome all limits. Of course, the baggage ...

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Zone One, by Colson Whitehead

Zone One Colson Whitehead

The biological threat, whether as a predesigned attack or as an uncontrolled pandemic, continues to be a subject that, to be glimpsed with certain certainty and regret, sustains so many apocalyptic stories in literature or in the cinema. But put to fiction, so that a plot of ...

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