Apex Hides the Hurt

This New York Times Notable Book from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry.

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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Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Whitehead, Colson
Published: 01/09/2007
Publisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9781400031269
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d