Harlem Shuffle

Resumen del libro

'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...'

To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home.
Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his facade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time.

See, cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from.

He knows a discreet jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions.

Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa - the 'Waldorf of Harlem' - and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do, after all.

Now Ray has to cater to a new clientele, one made up of shady cops on the take, vicious minions of the local crime lord, and numerous other Harlem lowlifes.
Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he starts to see the truth about who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs?

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Colson Whiteheadx{0026}lt;/B nació en 1969 en Nueva York. Finalista del PEN/Hemingway con su primera novela, x{0026}lt;I La intuicionistax{0026}lt;/I (2000), ha publicado media docena de novelas y el libro x{0026}lt;I El coloso de Nueva Yorkx{0026}lt;/I (2005). Fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer con x{0026}lt;I John Henry Daysx{0026}lt;/I (2011), finalista del PEN/Oakland Award con x{0026}lt;I Apex Hides the Hurtx{0026}lt;/I (2006) y del PEN/Faulkner con x{0026}lt;I Sag Harborx{0026}lt;/I (2009). x{0026}lt;I Zona Unox{0026}lt;/I (2012) fue un bestseller para x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I , y en 2014 publicó x{0026}lt;I The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky x{0026}amp; Deathx{0026}lt;/I . x{0026}lt;I El ferrocarril subterráneox{0026}lt;/I es su última novela hasta la fecha y ha sido merecedora del Premio Pulitzer 2017, del National Book Award 2016, de la Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence y del Indies Choice Book Award de 2017. Colson Whitehead es profesor en las universidades de Columbia y Princeton, y ha recibido las becas Guggenheim y MacArthur.x{0026}lt;/P