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” Harlem Shuffle ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked. To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver’s Row don’t approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it’s still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn’t ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn’t ask questions, either.

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The novel takes place over a handful of years in the late fifties/early sixties. Mr. Whitehead is an absolute master of character which makes it no surprise that Carney, our protagonist, is full of depths. Son of a violent crook, he makes most of his living as an honest owner of a furniture store; however, petty crime and graft is a part of his world and, as the plot develops, he gets dragged deeper into the game. His foot in the middle class gives him aspirations and access to successful people (and their pretentions and crimes) while still muddling with thieves and murderers, and the reader gets to see it all, a panorama of supporting characters who are as real and memorable as Carney himself. And all of this is set in a vividly recreated Harlem.Every time I read another of Mr. Whitehead’s novels, I become more and more impressed with his skills as a writer.