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Inside a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of NY. This is a literary love song that will access whoever has lived in-or spent time-in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the location that never sleeps, The Colossus of NY captures the city's inner and outer landscapes in some vignettes, meditations, and personal memories. Colson Whitehead conveys with almost uncanny immediacy the feelings and thoughts of longtime residents and of newcomers who dream of making it their home; of those who have conquered its challenges; and of these who struggle against its cruelties. Whitehead's style is really as multilayered and multifarious as NY itself: Switching from third person, to first person, to second person, he weaves individual voices into a jazzy musical composition that perfectly reflects just how we go through the city. There is a funny, knowing riff on what it feels as though to arrive in NY for the very first time; a lyrical meditation how the location is transformed by an urgent rain shower; and a wry go through the ferocious battle that is commuting. The plaintive notes of the lonely and dispossessed resound in one passage, while another captures those magical moments when the location seems to be talking directly to you, inviting you to be one using its rhythms.
