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ISBN10: 1400031265
ISBN13: 9781400031269
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Jan 9 2007
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781400031269
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Jan 9 2007
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
This wickedly funny (The Boston Globe) New York Times Notable Book from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys 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.
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