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The Intuitionist
Author: Colson Whitehead
Narrator: Peter Jay Fernandez
Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Published: 04/25/2008
Category: Fiction - Urban Life
Synopsis
This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.
Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read.
It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan citys Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work
by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and the Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question, meditate, and intuit any defects.
Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Maes watch, chaos ensues. Its an election year in the Elevator Guild, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would
love nothing more than to assign the blame to an Intuitionist. But Lila Mae is never wrong.
The sudden appearance of excerpts from the lost notebooks of Intuitionisms founder, James Fulton, has also caused quite a stir. The notebooks describe Fultons work on the black box, a perfect elevator that could reinvent the city as radically as the first passenger elevator did when patented
by Elisha Otis in the nineteenth century. When Lila Mae goes underground to investigate the crash, she becomes involved in the search for the portions of the notebooks that are still missing and uncovers a secret that will change her life forever.
Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read.
It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan citys Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work
by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and the Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question, meditate, and intuit any defects.
Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Maes watch, chaos ensues. Its an election year in the Elevator Guild, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would
love nothing more than to assign the blame to an Intuitionist. But Lila Mae is never wrong.
The sudden appearance of excerpts from the lost notebooks of Intuitionisms founder, James Fulton, has also caused quite a stir. The notebooks describe Fultons work on the black box, a perfect elevator that could reinvent the city as radically as the first passenger elevator did when patented
by Elisha Otis in the nineteenth century. When Lila Mae goes underground to investigate the crash, she becomes involved in the search for the portions of the notebooks that are still missing and uncovers a secret that will change her life forever.