A furniture salesman, who tries to keep to the straight and narrow with only the occasional foray into fencing a pilfered gewgaw for a cousin, finds himself drawn into a much bigger heist. A crackling portrait of Harlem in the 1960s from the double-Pulitzer winnner.
Harlem Shuffle
(author)
£16.99
Edition:Hardback978070889944114/09/2021
Categories: 05. Books for Christmas 2021: Fiction, Books for Christmas 2021, Fiction
Tag: North America
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