Sag Harbor

'Pure shimmering brilliance...One of the funniest books I've ever read' - Gary Shteyngart 
 
From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad

Whitehead proves himself, among other things, a poet of the American summer and its aspirations...remarkable

it is impossible not to like Sag Harbor and its genuinely empathetic, intelligent tone

Whitehead has tapped the most classic summer-novel activity of al: nostalgia

It's rare to come across a coming-of-age novel as polished as Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor

Whitehead's delicious language and sarcastic, clever voice fit this teenager who's slowly constructing himself

Perfectly portrays the constant and mortifying awkwardness of teenage existence

Intimate and autobiographical story...the novel can't help but hold your attention

Colson Whitehead is the author of four previous novels, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and Zone One, as well as The Colossus of New York, a collection of essays. He is the recipient of numerous awards and has frequently hit the American bestseller lists. He lives in New York. 
 
Web: www.colsonwhitehead.com 
Twitter: @colsonwhitehead

From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad 
 
Benji spends most of the year as one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, going to roller disco bar mitzvahs, desperately trying to find his place in the social hierarchy. 
 
Then he spends his summers in the African-American community of Sag Harbor on Long Island, and is just as confused. He's way behind on the latest handshakes, baffled by new slang, and his attempts to be cool and meet girls are constantly thwarted by his extremely awkward inner geek, braces and a badly cut Afro. 
 
It's the summer of 1985 and Benji is determined that this is the summer when things will change and he'll fit in. For starters, he'll be reinvented as 'Ben'. When that doesn't catch on, it's another summer of the perpetual mortification that is teenage existence.

Colson Whitehead

VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES 
Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. 
 
From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad 
 
A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is slowly being resettled. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street - aka 'Zone One' and teams of civilian volunteers are clearing out the remaining infected 'stragglers'. 
 
Mark Spitz is a member of one of these taskforces and over three surreal days he undertakes the mundane mission of malfunctioning zombie removal, the rigours of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and attempting to come to terms with a fallen world. 
 
But then things start to go terribly wrong... 
 
'A dark futuristic satire laced with fiendish humour' The Times

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