Colson Whitehead on His Harlem Trilogy
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Colson Whitehead's character Ray Carney is one of the great crooks in recent fiction. Ray isn't big time, he's not even a kingpinny, he's not even a particularly bad guy. He's a furniture salesman in Harlem. He sells Barca loungers in the store, and out the back door he fences stolen goods.
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