The intuitionist
(2000, original release: 1999)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/WHITEHEAD,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Anchor Books, a Division of Random House Inc., [2000]
©1999
©1999
EDITION
First Anchor Books edition
DESCRIPTION
255 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385493000, 0385493002 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: New York : Anchor Books, 1999
An elevator inspector becomes the center of controversy when an elevator crashes. The inspector, Lila Mae Watson, is a black woman who inspects by intuition, as opposed to visual observation, and now she must prove her method was not at fault. A study of society's attitude to technology and a debut in fiction