by Colson Whitehead
I love Colson Whitehead's other novels, and this one is pretty good, too. But it's not really his normal genre, in fact it's not exactly a "novel" in the strictest sense of the word. There isn't a plot, as far as I can tell. It's one summer in the life of an adolesent boy (roman a clef?) and I found...
Wanted to love this book. Ended up liking it.
A meditation on the construction of black masculinity in the form of a comic bildungsroman whose protagonist doesn't so much come of age as fumble through growing older. Clever, funny, baggy; I think I prefer Whitehead's more conspicuously artificial and structured work, though.
I spent all summer on this book. I enjoyed my time in Sag Harbor so much that I couldn't bring myself to finish the book, even as I waited anxiously between reading spurts. The characters are so richly and lovingly drawn, the community is vivid. I just can't say enough good things about this book...
Sag Harbor was my first B&N First Look book club books. I have been very remiss in my club "duties". While I dutifully read each chapter on the assigned week, I did not really participate in the discussions as much as I want to.I've only made it through 2/3 of the book. I think I lost interest with ...
I just got a copy of this, and I'll be coming to it shortly... and then, noodling about online, found Whitehead pissing up James Wood's leg, which whets the appetite.Finished. I think I fell in love with Colson Whitehead before I even cracked a spine, just looking at that moniker on the cover -- th...
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