John Henry Days - Colson Whitehead - 2002 Anchor Books Paperback

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Publisher blurb: “On one level, John Henry Days brilliantly retells the story of the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him.

On another level it's the story of a disaffected black journalist on a mission to set a record for junketeering who attends the first an-

nual John Henry Days festival. It is also a thrill ride through the tunnel where American legend gives way to American pop culture, replete with P.R. flacks, blues men, and turn-of-the-century song pluggers. Intellectually dazzling and laugh-out-loud funny, this extraordinary novel is a tour de force from one of the finest authors writing today.

"A narrative tour de force that astonishes on almost every page." - Time

"Does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world.

An ambitious, finely chiseled work."

-John Updike, The New Yorker

"A feast for famished readers." - Newsweek