Apex Hides the Hurt
The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town’s aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they...
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The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town’s aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realize, is a nomenclature consultant. And, it turns out, the consultant needs them. But in a culture overwhelmed by marketing, the name is everything and our hero’s efforts may result in not just a new name for the town but a new and subtler truth about it as well.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400031269 (1400031265)
Publish date: January 9th 2007
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
African American,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Race
a very clever book from a really sharp writer that i realized too late was a satire. i would have thought that names would have been enough for me and he does pursue some really interesting lines of thought but when all is said and done i would wish for more meat and less cucumber sandwich. on the f...
Probably more subtle than [book:The Intuitionist], but I liked Lila Mae and the fantastical architecture of that book better than the deliberate anomie of the nameless narrator here. Apparently it's a terrible cliche to compare ambitious black literary novelists to [author:Ralph Ellison], but White...
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