![]() ![]() ![]() Postal Service's release of a commemorative John Henry stamp. ![]() Journalist whose best days were in the late '60s, and jittery One Eye, whose paranoia infects J.-descend on Talcott, W.Va., John Henry's supposed resting ground, to report on the U.S. and his fellow junketeers-notably Dave Brown, a former gonzo Rolling Stone Sutter, member of a junketeering tribe whose mores and speech are rendered with anthropological enthusiasm. Seizing on the story of American folk hero John Henry, the black railroad worker who beat a steam drill in a one-on-one contest and died in the act, Whitehead juxtaposes it with the soulless saga of 21st-century freelance writer J. Death knells toll alike at the dawn of the machine age and the digital age, proclaiming an exhausted general collapse in this impressive, multilayered second novel by Whitehead ( The Intuitionist ![]()
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