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by Kyle, May 25, 2005 12:38 PM
Fans of the extended junketeering riffs in John Henry Days, rejoice: Colson Whitehead is back with a short, satirical novel about a city — and a man — looking for a fresh start. Gone are the extended digressions and extravagant stylistic shifts of JHD. In Apex Hides the Hurt, Whitehead sends a nomenclature consultant to sleepy Winthrop, USA, and there our attention remains, upon a millionaire, a townie, and the mayor, caught between the competing realities of what is and what could be.
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