Apex Hides the Hurt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400031269)

This "wickedly funny" (The Boston Globe) 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.

Look for Colson Whitehead's new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

Author: Colson Whitehead
ISBN-10: 1400031265
ISBN-13: 9781400031269
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 01/09/2007
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 01/19/2007 pg. 85
New York Times 02/04/2007 pg. 24
Village Voice 04/29/2009 pg. 35

About the Author

Colson Whitehead is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad. His other works include The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and one collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. A National Book Award winner and a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.