The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead Page B

a Whiting Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Brooklyn.

ALSO BY COLSON WHITEHEAD
    The Intuitionist
John Henry Days

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, OCTOBER 2004
    Copyright © 2003 by Colson Whitehead
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    “City Limits” first appeared, in a slightly different form,
in
The New York Times Magazine
.
    Photo credits are on page 161.
    The Library of Congress has cataloged the
Doubleday edition as follows:
Whitehead, Colson, 1969–
The colossus of New York: a city in thirteen parts /
Colson Whitehead.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. New York (N.Y.)—Description and travel. 2. New York (N.Y.)—
Social life and customs. 3. Whitehead, Colson,
1969—Homes and haunts—New York (State)—New York.
I. Title.
F128.55.W54 2003
818’.5403—dc21 2002041691
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