Whitehead with this: He captures the fire flies of teenage summertime in a jar.What's best aboutSag Harboris the utter and sometimes mortifying accuracy of its descriptive details.equally aware of the tiny nuances of teen culture.When this book's range encompasses kids, parents, community, tradition and history simultaneously, Mr. It is Benji's uncertainty about everything that gives him such perspective, imbues even his most casual observations with a sheen of elegiac wisdom.tense, lush, poignant-'Sag Harbor' at its most satisfying.'-The Boston Globe 'Sea-breeze buoyant.teasingly self-aware spirit.hilariously trifling intricacies of this self-discovery process.

Ice provides some astute medical advice-is twinned by pain. John Updike,The New Yorker, 'Whitehead's most enjoyable book-warm and funny, carefully observed, and beautifully written, studded with small moments of pain and epiphany.Whiehead seems to be having the time of his life one can almost feel him relaxing into this book as if it actually were the summer home of his youth.The humor of 'Sag Harbor'-which reaches its apex in a scene involving seminal mid-'80s hip hop group UTFO's appearance at the local waffle cone emporium, where the rapper known as Dr. Praise for Colson Whitehead 'Whitehead is making a strong case for a new name of his own: that of the best of the new generation of American novelists.' -The Boston Globe 'Whitehead one of the city's and country's finest young writers.' -Chicago Tribune 'Does what writing should do it refreshes our sense of the world.

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