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Crook Manifesto

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內容簡介 普立茲文學獎得主科爾森．懷特黑德最新作！寫給1970年代紐約的混世情歌1971年，早已金盆洗手的傢俱行老闆Ray Carney為了幫女兒弄到Jackson 5的演唱會門票，不得已，再次與腳跨黑白兩道的「喬王」搭上線，但天下哪會有白吃的午餐……1973年，Carney往日的老搭檔Pepper少了推心置腹的夥伴，無法成大事，索性在黑人剝削電影片場當起保全。好萊塢雖然不乏泛泛之輩，但到底還是沒有Pepper這個在紐約混大的前罪犯，來得厲害……1976年，在舉國歡慶建國兩百週年之際，紐約的街道很不平靜，接連發生的縱火案讓整個城市陷入恐慌。儘管Carney已決定低調過日，但當Carney的一名房客因一起縱火案性命垂危，Carney決定和Pepper再次聯手，在這個已陷入瘋狂的城市裡，追緝縱火案幕後的主使者。Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.It’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It’s strictly the straight-and-narrow for him — until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire. But Munson has his own favors to ask of Carney and staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated – and deadly.1973. The counter-culture has created a new generation, the old ways are being overthrown, but there is one constant, Pepper, Carney’s endearingly violent partner in crime. It’s getting harder to put together a reliable crew for hijackings, heists, and assorted felonies, so Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on a Blaxploitation shoot in Harlem. He finds himself in a freaky world of Hollywood stars, up-and-coming comedians, and celebrity drug dealers, in addition to the usual cast of hustlers, mobsters, and hit men. These adversaries underestimate the seasoned crook – to their regret.1976. Harlem is burning, block by block, while the whole county is gearing up for Bicentennial celebrations. Carney is trying to come up with a July 4th ad he can live with. ("Two Hundred Years of Getting Away with It!"), while his wife Elizabeth is campaigning for her childhood friend, the former assistant D.A and rising politician Alexander Oakes. When a fire severely injures one of Carney’s tenants, he enlists Pepper to look into who may be behind it. Our crooked duo have to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent, and the utterly corrupted.CROOK MANIFESTO is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family. Colson Whitehead’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is sure to stand as one of the all-time great evocations of a place and a time.

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作者介紹 COLSON WHITEHEAD is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.

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