![]() ![]() The way Whitehead maps the chameleonic, changing networks of the city onto the psyche of his ambitious protagonist is nothing short of masterful. ![]() One is easily distracted from this, however, by the novel's colourful cast, like the heist's menacing mastermind, the purple-suited Miami Joe: "The only thing he dressed up nicely was himself all else remained as naked and uncomplicated as God had created it." If there is a weak part to this story, it is the bond between Carney and Freddie, upon which much of the plot hinges, but which never feels convincing enough to warrant the risks Carney takes for his cousin. ![]() He accidentally volunteers Carney as the fence for an audacious robbery of the Hotel Theresa, a beloved Harlem institution - "like taking a p*** on the Statue of Liberty", thinks Carney in horror. ![]()
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