Colson Whitehead Cool Machine review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Doubleday will publish the Colson Whitehead novel and final volume of his Harlem Trilogy, on July 21, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication. The Dutch translation of the novel with the same title will be published three weeks earlier.
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Cool Machine
Harlem trilogy part 3
- Author: Colson Whitehead (United States)
- Book type: American novel
- Publisher: Doubleday
- To be released: July 21, 2026
- Length: 368 pages
- Format: hardback / paperback / ebook / audiobook
- Prize: $ 30.00
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Blurb of the new Colson Whitehead novel and Harlem Shuffle part 3
An exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.
1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture’s Dealer of the Month. When the banks won’t give his beloved wife Elizabeth a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.
1983. To some, Carney’s friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath. To others, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he’s feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, he’s plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene. Luckily for him, whether you’re uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of violence—Pepper is a native speaker.
1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now, twenty years after Freddie’s death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie’s son from the violent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again will mean risking the safety and security he’s spent decades building for his family, with only one shot to get it right.
With his usual pitch-perfect prose Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to the Meadowlands, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead’s vivid characters, it’s what’s below the surface that reveals the truth.
The Dutch translation of the novel with the same title will be published three weeks earlier.
Colson Whitehead is born November 6, 1969 in New York City. He is the author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. He lives in New York City.
