The Resource The intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
The intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
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Resource Information
The item The intuitionist, Colson Whitehead represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- An elevator inspector becomes the center of controversy when an elevator crashes. The inspector, Lila Mae Watson, is a black woman who inspects by intuition, as opposed to visual observation, and now she must prove her method was not at fault. A study of society's attitude to technology and a debut in fiction
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Paperback edition.
- Extent
- 255 pages
- Note
- First published in the United States in 1999 by Anchor Books
- Isbn
- 9780708898475
- Label
- The intuitionist
- Title
- The intuitionist
- Statement of responsibility
- Colson Whitehead
- Subject
-
- trueIntrigue
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueAfrican American women -- Identity
- trueContemporary fantasy
- trueAfrofuturism and Afrofantasy
- trueAfrican American fiction
- African American women -- Fiction
- trueRace relations
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Elevator mechanics -- United States -- Fiction
- Elevators -- Inspection -- Fiction
- Sabotage -- Fiction
- trueElevators
- trueCity life
- trueIntuition
- trueLabor unions
- trueSects
- trueLabor unions -- Elections
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- An elevator inspector becomes the center of controversy when an elevator crashes. The inspector, Lila Mae Watson, is a black woman who inspects by intuition, as opposed to visual observation, and now she must prove her method was not at fault. A study of society's attitude to technology and a debut in fiction
- Summary
- A black female elevator inspector must prove that her method of inspection by intuition, as opposed to visual observation, is not at fault when an elevator in a new city building crashes
- Award
-
- New York Times Notable Book, 1999
- Great American Read, 2018.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 062117
- Cataloging source
- QBCL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Whitehead, Colson
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African Americans
- Elevator mechanics
- Sabotage
- African American women
- Elevators
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
- Note
- First published in the United States in 1999 by Anchor Books
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059868916
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- Paperback edition.
- Extent
- 255 pages
- Isbn
- 9780708898475
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981980536
- Label
- The intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
- Note
- First published in the United States in 1999 by Anchor Books
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059868916
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- Paperback edition.
- Extent
- 255 pages
- Isbn
- 9780708898475
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981980536
Subject
- trueAfrican American fiction
- African American women -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American women -- Identity
- African Americans -- Fiction
- trueAfrofuturism and Afrofantasy
- trueCity life
- trueContemporary fantasy
- Elevator mechanics -- United States -- Fiction
- trueElevators
- Elevators -- Inspection -- Fiction
- trueIntrigue
- trueIntuition
- trueLabor unions
- trueLabor unions -- Elections
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueRace relations
- Sabotage -- Fiction
- trueSects
Genre
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueAfrofuturism and Afrofantasy
- trueContemporary fantasy
- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
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