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It's 1985. Benji, the son of a lawyer and a doctor, is one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends much of the year going to roller disco bar mitzvahs and trying desperately to find a social group that will accept him.
But every summer, Benji and his brother Reggie escape to Sag Harbor on Long Island, where a small community of African-American professionals have built a world of their own. Except Benji is just as confused about this all-black refuge as he is about the white world he negotiates during the school year. He's one step behind on every new dance, and his attempts to meet a girl are undermined by his own awkwardness, not to mention his braces and his father-cut Afro.
Sag Harbor is a warm and funny novel about the perpetual mortification of teenage existence from one of the most acclaimed writers in the English language.
But every summer, Benji and his brother Reggie escape to Sag Harbor on Long Island, where a small community of African-American professionals have built a world of their own. Except Benji is just as confused about this all-black refuge as he is about the white world he negotiates during the school year. He's one step behind on every new dance, and his attempts to meet a girl are undermined by his own awkwardness, not to mention his braces and his father-cut Afro.
Sag Harbor is a warm and funny novel about the perpetual mortification of teenage existence from one of the most acclaimed writers in the English language.
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He weaves a spell that is by turns enchanting, mood-shifting, and side-splitting, sharing the sweet, sad secrets of his mixed-up, mid-’80s adolescence –-Elle
Intimate and autobiographical story ... the novel can’t help but hold your attention --Dazed and Confused
The Coolest Writer in America - He's widely admired, ever smooth, a master of writing important books –-Esquire
Whitehead is a smart guy and a dazzling talent ... he has a David Foster Wallace-esque knack for punctuating meticulously figurative constructions with deadpan slacker wit --Los Angeles Times
A love letter not only to the Long Island town and African-American summer enclave but to '80s culture and The Cosby Show; to hip-hop and upper-middle-class black culture --Dallas Morning News
Sea-breeze buoyant ... each reunion with a childhood Sag Harbor friend means a chance for Benji to study and analyze new affectations. Mr. Whitehead, whose previous novels include The Intuitionist and John Henry Days, describes this process so entertainingly that it becomes the book’s greatest asset.... What’s best about Sag Harbor is the utter and sometimes mortifying accuracy of its descriptive details --New York Times
It is impossible not to like Sag Harbor and its genuinely empathetic, intelligent tone - The Times Whitehead proves himself, among other things, a poet of the American summer and its aspirations...remarkable --Guardian
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Intimate and autobiographical story ... the novel can’t help but hold your attention --Dazed and Confused
The Coolest Writer in America - He's widely admired, ever smooth, a master of writing important books –-Esquire
Whitehead is a smart guy and a dazzling talent ... he has a David Foster Wallace-esque knack for punctuating meticulously figurative constructions with deadpan slacker wit --Los Angeles Times
A love letter not only to the Long Island town and African-American summer enclave but to '80s culture and The Cosby Show; to hip-hop and upper-middle-class black culture --Dallas Morning News
Sea-breeze buoyant ... each reunion with a childhood Sag Harbor friend means a chance for Benji to study and analyze new affectations. Mr. Whitehead, whose previous novels include The Intuitionist and John Henry Days, describes this process so entertainingly that it becomes the book’s greatest asset.... What’s best about Sag Harbor is the utter and sometimes mortifying accuracy of its descriptive details --New York Times
It is impossible not to like Sag Harbor and its genuinely empathetic, intelligent tone - The Times Whitehead proves himself, among other things, a poet of the American summer and its aspirations...remarkable --Guardian
'Pure shimmering brilliance...One of the funniest books I've ever read' Gary Shteyngart
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- PublisherMondadori
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 8804601434
- ISBN 13 9788804601432
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