Isbn: 9780708898475 - the intuitionist: colson whitehead (11 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. The marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected debut novel from the author of The Underground Railroad. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsIt is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and the Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question, meditate, and intuit any defects. Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's watch, chaos ensues. It's an election year in the Elevator Guild, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would love nothing more than to assign the blame to an Intuitionist. But Lila Mae is never wrong.The sudden appearance of excerpts from the lost not Elektronisches Buch of Intuitionism's founder, James Fulton, has also caused quite a stir. The not Elektronisches Buch describe Fulton's work on the 'black box,' a perfect elevator that could reinvent the city as radically as the first passenger elevator did when patented by Elisha Otis in the nineteenth century. When Lila Mae goes underground to investigate the crash, she becomes involved in the search for the portions of the not Elektronisches Buch that are still missing and uncovers a secret that will change her life forever.…

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Zustand: New. The marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected debut novel from the author of The Underground Railroad.&Uumlber den AutorColson Whitehead is a multi-award winning and bestselling author whose works include The Nickel B.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsIt is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and the Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question, meditate, and intuit any defects. Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's watch, chaos ensues. It's an election year in the Elevator Guild, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would love nothing more than to assign the blame to an Intuitionist. But Lila Mae is never wrong.The sudden appearance of excerpts from the lost not Elektronisches Buch of Intuitionism's founder, James Fulton, has also caused quite a stir. The not Elektronisches Buch describe Fulton's work on the 'black box,' a perfect elevator that could reinvent the city as radically as the first passenger elevator did when patented by Elisha Otis in the nineteenth century. When Lila Mae goes underground to investigate the crash, she becomes involved in the search for the portions of the not Elektronisches Buch that are still missing and uncovers a secret that will change her life forever.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 255 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Intuitionist | Colson Whitehead | Taschenbuch | 272 S. | Englisch | 2017 | Little, Brown Book Group | EAN 9780708898475 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, 22083 Hamburg, gpsr[at]petersen-buchimport[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsIt is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and the Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question, meditate, and intuit any defects. Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's watch, chaos ensues. It's an election year in the Elevator Guild, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would love nothing more than to assign the blame to an Intuitionist. But Lila Mae is never wrong.The sudden appearance of excerpts from the lost not Elektronisches Buch of Intuitionism's founder, James Fulton, has also caused quite a stir. The not Elektronisches Buch describe Fulton's work on the 'black box,' a perfect elevator that could reinvent the city as radically as the first passenger elevator did when patented by Elisha Otis in the nineteenth century. When Lila Mae goes underground to investigate the crash, she becomes involved in the search for the portions of the not Elektronisches Buch that are still missing and uncovers a secret that will change her life forever. 255 pp. Englisch.…