Colson Whitehead: Apex Hides The Hurt

**Mirabell** · 24-Nov-2009, 22:34

Whitehead is too brilliant a writer to try to pound home one point and make everything in the book subject to that one point, that one reading. Apex Hides The Hurt is a multi-facetted romp through America, past and present, a realistic allegory that focuses on a small microcosm without ever losing sight of the broader context. You might find it boring sometimes, but you shouldn’t. This book can sustain several rereads without ever stopping to glitter with possibilities. Colson Whitehead is an awesome writer and this is a great book.

full review here: Rotter: Colson Whitehead’s “Apex Hides The Hurt” shigekuni.

(a bit too long, sorry)