The Intuitionist - Hardcover

Whitehead, Colson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385492995 ISBN 13: 9780385492997

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1998

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As two factions at the Department of Elevator Inspectors--the Empiricists and the Intuitionists--wage war on each other, Intuitionist Lila Mae, the first black elevator inspector, faces bedlam when an elevator freefalls on her watch and the mysterious notebooks from the founder of Intuitionism suddenly appear.

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of calamity in a major metropolitan city's 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 Mae's watch, chaos ensues.  It's 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 I

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• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385492995
• ISBN 13: 9780385492997
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272