Intuitionist
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Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson
Whitehead's first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise
city that combines twenty-first-century engineering feats with
nineteenth-century pork-barrel politics. Elevators are the
technological expression of the vertical ideal, and Lila Mae
Watson, the city's first black female elevator inspector, is its
embattled token of upward mobility.When Number Eleven of the newly
completed Fanny Briggs Memorial Building goes into deadly free-fall
just hours after Lila Mae has signed off on it, using the
controversial 'Intuitionist' method of ascertaining elevator
safety, both Intuitionists and Empiricists recognize the set-up,
but may be willing to let Lila Mae take the fall in an election
year.As Lila Mae strives to exonerate herself in this urgent
adventure full of government spies, underworld hit men, and
seductive double agents, behind the action, always, is the Idea.
Lila Mae's quest is mysteriously entwined with existence of
heretofore lost writings by James Fulton, father of Intuitionism, a
giant of vertical thought. If she is able to find and reveal his
plan for the perfect, next-generation elevator, the city as it now
exists may instantly become obsolescent.
Výber kníh autorov
Colson Whitehead ,
Fleet
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Colson Whitehead,
Fleet
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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