The intuitionist

R$ 132,90

Sinopse

This debut novel by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and the Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question, meditate, and intuit any defects.Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's watch, chaos ensues. It's an election year in the Elevator Guild, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would love nothing more than to assign the blame to an Intuitionist. But Lila Mae is never wrong.The sudden appearance of excerpts from the lost notbookss of Intuitionism's founder, James Fulton, has also caused quite a stir. The notbookss describe Fulton's work on the "black box," a perfect elevator that could reinvent the city as radically as the first passenger elevator did when patented by Elisha Otis in the nineteenth century. When Lila Mae goes underground to investigate the crash, she becomes involved in the search for the portions of the notbookss that are still missing and uncovers a secret that will change her life forever.

Participantes

Autor: Colson Whitehead

Autor

COLSON WHITEHEAD

Colson Whitehead (Nova York – EUA, 1969) é escritor, ensaísta e colabora com o jornal The New York Times e as revistas New Yorker e Granta. Uma viagem de seis semanas ao Brasil – por cidades como São Paulo, Rio, Salvador e Paraty – foi decisiva para que, aos 24 anos, decidisse se tornar escritor. Publicou, entre outros, a ficção especulativa A intuicionista, e o ultrapremiado romance histórico Underground railwoad: os caminhos da liberdade (2017), vencedor do Pulitzer Prize e do National Book Award.