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John Henry Days
Narrated by:
Peter Jay Fernandez
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Narrated by:
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Peter Jay Fernandez
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Written by:
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Colson Whitehead
Travelling into the backwoods of West Virginia to write a piece on the unveiling of the new John Henry postage stamp and the ensuing John Henry Days festival, J. continues his nearly record-setting, three-month junket binge. But when he begins to choke on a piece of prime rib at a press dinner, shadows from the past are summoned forth and he leaves the mountain a changed man.
Colson Whitehead is the author of the critically acclaimed, QPB New Voices Award-winning novel, The Intuitionist. Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez, John Henry Days is both an ingenious retelling of the American legend of John Henry and a fascinating look into the world of contemporary journalism.
©2001 Colson Whitehead (P)2001 Recorded Books
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Critic Reviews
"Does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world....An ambitious, finely chiseled work. (John Updike, The New Yorker)
"Masterfully composed and full of myth and magic....deftly skewering the absurdities of the information age." (Booklist)
"Masterfully composed and full of myth and magic....deftly skewering the absurdities of the information age." (Booklist)
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