NATIONAL BESTSELLER PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class" (The New York Times).
Benji Cooper is one of the few Black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of Black professionals have built a world of their own.
The summer of '85 won't be without its usual trials and tribulations, of course. There will be complicated new handshakes to fumble through and state-of-the-art profanity to master. Benji will be tested by contests big and small, by his misshapen haircut (which seems to have a will of its own), by the New Coke Tragedy, and by his secret Lite FM addiction. But maybe, just maybe, this summer might be one for the ages.
Look for Colson Whitehead's new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
| ISBN: | 9780307455161 |
| Publication date: | 15th June 2010 |
| Author: | Colson Whitehead |
| Publisher: | Anchor Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Genres: |
General Fiction Narrative theme: Coming of age |
But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of Black professionals have built a world of their own. The summer of '85 won't be without its usual trials and tribulations, of course. There will be complicated new handshakes to fumble through and state-of-the-art profanity to master.
Sag Harbor features in the following genres: General Fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age
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Sag Harbor was written by Colson Whitehead and published by Anchor Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Sag Harbor has 352 pages