Apex Hides the Truth by Colson Whitehead
This New York Times Notable Book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry.
The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town's aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realize, is a nomenclature consultant.
And, it turns out, the consultant needs them. But in a culture overwhelmed by marketing, the name is everything and our hero's efforts may result in not just a new name for the town but a new and subtler truth about it as well.
Paperback | 224 pages
130 x 198 x 17mm | 208g
27 Feb 2018
Little, Brown Book Group
London, United Kingdom
English
0708898750
9780708898758
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover, including very minimal scuff marks, and a small piece of laminating that has peeled off from the bottom-left corner of the back cover, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged, with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.