![]() By asking for a favor, Carney is forced to perform one in return, which leads him to become the unwitting accomplice to a murder. But when his daughter insists that she needs tickets to the Jackson 5 concert but they're sold out, he goes to the person he's confident can get him a pair - a corrupt white cop. In the opening of "Crook Manifesto," he's been retired from crime for four years. Fencing got him deeper into crime than he was prepared for. But it's the money he's earned from fencing stolen goods that's enabled him to move from a cramped apartment to the home he owns on Harlem's Strivers' Row. It brings back the main character, Ray Carney, the owner of a furniture store on 125th Street in Harlem, who takes pride in upgrading his customer's living rooms with comfortable, quality sofas and recliners. The new novel, "Crook Manifesto," takes place from 1971 to '76. "Harlem Shuffle," the first novel in his projected "Harlem" trilogy, was set in the '60s. These novels give him the chance to write snappy dialogue laced with witty observations while writing about class and race, as well as crime and corruption at every level - from petty criminals to cops, city politicians and Harlem's elite. After writing about those grim subjects, Whitehead started writing crime novels set in Harlem. A film adaptation starring Aunjanue Ellis is in the works. The second Pulitzer was for "The Nickel Boys," based on the true story of a segregated state reform school for boys in which the boys were physically abused and dozens died. ![]() The first Pulitzer was for "The Underground Railroad," an allegory about race in America told through the stories of an escaped slave and a slave catcher. My guest, Colson Whitehead, won Pulitzer Prizes for two consecutive novels. ![]()
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