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050 00 $aPS3573.H4768$bJ64 2001
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aWhitehead, Colson,$d1969-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98027019
245 10 $aJohn Henry Days :$ba novel /$cColson Whitehead.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $a389 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"In John Henry Days, Colson Whitehead transforms the simple ballad into a contrapuntal masterpiece. The narrative revolves around the story of J. Sutter, a young black journalist. Sutter is a "junketeer," a freeloading hack who roams from one publicity event to another, abusing his expense account and mooching as much as possible.
520 8 $aIt is 1996, and an assignment for a travel Web site takes Sutter to West Virginia for the first annual "John Henry Days" festival, a celebration of a new U.S. postal stamp honoring John Henry. And there the real story of John Henry emerges in graceful counterpoint to Sutter's thoroughly modern adventure.".
520 8 $a"As he explores the parallels between the lives of these two black men, and between the Industrial Age, which literally killed John Henry, and the Digital Age, which is destroying J. Sutter's soul, Whitehead adds multiple dimensions to the myth of the steel-driving man. And he traces the evolution of the famous ballad over the past century."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aHenry, John$c(Legendary character)$vFiction.
650 0 $aAfrican American journalists$vFiction.
655 7 $aLegends.$2gsafd
852 00 $bglx$hPS3573.H4768$iJ64 2001
852 00 $bbar$hPS3573.H4768$iJ64 2001