Bibliograph

Sag Harbor, a novel, Colson Whitehead

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Sag Harbor, a novel, Colson Whitehead

Language

eng

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Sag Harbor

Oclc number

213766008

Responsibility statement

Colson Whitehead

Sub title

a novel

Summary

The year is 1985. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. After a tragic mishap on his first day of high school when Benji reveals his deep enthusiasm for the horror movie magazine Fangoria, his social doom is sealed for the next four years. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals have built a world of their own. And although he's just as confused about this all-black refuge as he is about the white world he negotiates the rest of the year, he thinks that maybe this summer things will be different

Target audience

adult

Classification