Apex Hides the Hurt

224 Pages·2006·0.83 MB·English

by  Colson Whitehead

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Also by Colson Whitehead
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APEX HIDES THE HURT
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Colson Whitehead
FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 2007
Copyright © 2006 Colson Whitehead
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada
Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States
by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2006.
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Ran dom House, Inc.
Book design by Maria Carella
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Whitehead, Colson, 1969–
Apex hides the hurt / Colson Whitehead.— 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Brand name products—Marketing—Fiction. 2. Names,
Geographical—Fiction.
3. City and town life—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3573.H4768A85 2006
813'.54—dc22 2005049391
eISBN: 978-0-307-27978-1
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