5/24/2023 0 Comments Harlem shuffle reviewTrying to shed his lowly background and join the elite Harlem circle his in-laws occupy, Carney attends a “smoker” at The Dumas Club, a private dining and social organization for Negro men. The middle card, “Dorvay, 1961,” seems like the winner to me. Nicholas Historic District or into a Sugar Hill “classic-six” with gorgeous western light and great views of the Hudson River. He and Elizabeth, his wife, are hard-working, lower-middle-class Harlemites with bourgeois dreams of movin’ on up to a tony rowhouse in the St. After all, he is a graduate of Queens College and an industrious entrepreneur. In fact, he imagines himself as “only slightly bent” when it comes to being crooked. Carney is also the proprietor of a “gently used” furniture and appliance store on Harlem’s west side.Ĭarney would never call himself a thief. Carney and Aronowitz are loose partners in the sale and distribution of stolen TV, radio, and stereo equipment. When we meet Ray Carney, the protagonist of “ Harlem Shuffle,” Colson Whitehead’s 10th book and eighth novel, he’s in lower Manhattan, “halfway down Cortlandt, off Greenwich” visiting his radio repairman, Aronowitz. 0912Harlem BOOKS 9-12-21 Oboh Moses for The Boston Globe Illustration for review of "Harlem Shuffle" by Colson Whitehead.
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