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Original Title:	The Intuitionist
ISBN:	0385493002 (ISBN13: 9780385493000)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lila Mae Watson
Setting:	United States of America

The Intuitionist Paperback | Pages: 255 pages

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Title	:	The Intuitionist
Author	:	Colson Whitehead
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 255 pages
Published	:	January 4th 1999 by Anchor Books (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Mystery

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A New York Times Notable Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
Two warring factions in the Department of Elevator Inspectors in a bustling metropolis vie for dominance: the Empiricists, who go by the book and rigorously check every structural and mechanical detail, and the Intuitionists, whose observational methods involve meditation and instinct. Lila Mae Watson, the city’s first black female inspector and a devout Intuitionist with the highest accuracy rate in the department, is at the center of the turmoil. An elevator in a new municipal building has crashed on Lila Mae’s watch, fanning the flames of the Empiticist-Intuitionist feud and compelling Lila Mae to go underground to investigate. As she endeavors to clear her name, she becomes entangled in a web of intrigue that leads her to a secret that will change her life forever.
A dead-serious and seriously funny feat of the imagination, The Intuitionist conjures a parallel universe in which latent ironies in matters of morality, politics, and race come to light, and stands as the celebrated debut of an important American writer.

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So dense that I had to take breaks to rest my brain, and so good that I (almost) want to take a college lit class where it's on the syllabus so I can hear people say smart things about it. (But I hate school, so that's not happening.) Whitehead's writing is rich and textured. Every single "minor" character is memorable. Just freakin' amazing.It actually reminded me of my fave book ever, Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, but without the wackiness. I don't know if enough people have read Vineland for

There are many things to like about Colson Whiteheads first novel, The Institutionist: the prospect of reading about elevator inspectors (a subject, Im pretty sure, no one has ever written about in fiction), the idealogical split between institutionist and empiricist inspectors (one group inspects elevators by observation and scrutiny, the other by feel. Ill let you guess who does what), and elevators being a metaphor for almost everything important in lifeThey go up, they go down. You just have

So dense that I had to take breaks to rest my brain, and so good that I (almost) want to take a college lit class where it's on the syllabus so I can hear people say smart things about it. (But I hate school, so that's not happening.) Whitehead's writing is rich and textured. Every single "minor" character is memorable. Just freakin' amazing.It actually reminded me of my fave book ever, Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, but without the wackiness. I don't know if enough people have read Vineland for

I came to Colson Whitehead by way of zombies.Colson Whitehead, writer of award-nominated books, including National Book Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and New York Times Notable Book of the Year; contributer to the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and Harper's; and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.Yes, that Colson Whitehead. Zombies. I'd like to pause for a moment and just admire the mind-twist for those that deride zombie books. The



When Adam asked me what I was reading the other day, I responded, It's called The Intuitionist. It's about race. And elevators. He made a noise expressing both surprise and confusion, but pretty much left it alone. Like any good husband would, he reads my site. He knows he'll get better information out of me if he waits for the written version of my bookish thoughts. So here it is: Lila Mae Watson is an elevator inspector in a New York-ish city full of high rises. The time period is as murky as

Colson Whiteheads The Intuitionist is a mystery aboutelevator inspectors? Or is it about an ideological conflict between opposing schools of elevator theory (the Empiricists and the Intuitionists) which surfaces when an elevator deemed safe by elevator inspector, Lila Mae Watson (an Intuitionist) goes into freefall? Whiteheads novel has the feel of a noir detective story replete with intrigue and espionage. His urban landscape is filled with characters youd expect to see in such a novel and the