The focus is on John Henry Days, a festival in West Virginia that has been created to celebrate John Henry and the issuing of a stamp of him, but more importantly to bring tourists to two small and economically struggling towns. It might end up turning into a diary entry about my reading of the book. Unable to add item to Wish List. The beauty is in the details...unfortunately. I really loved "Underground Railroad" and was hoping for more of the same here, but this book really needed some magical realism or something like the former book to really make it stand out. I am pretty sure my mouth dropped open at several points. "[1] Writing in The New York Times, novelist Jonathan Franzen likened the novel to Ulysses and Moby-Dick in its "encyclopedic aspirations", but added: "John Henry Days is funny and wise and sumptuously written, but it's only rarely a page turner. J's progression from this rather shallow being to a man who at least begins to question life's meaning is the main focus of the story. It wasn't always easy for me. Whitehead bases his novel in part on the real-life printing of the Folk Hero stamp series that included the legendary steel driver John Henry and on the 1996 John Henry Days festival in Talcott, West Virginia, the supposed location of John Henry’s mythic exploits. Am Ende sucht er doch nach irgendetwas, dass ihn jenseits der auf Pressepartys geschnorrten Rayban-Sonnenbrille und Calvin-Klein-Jeans ausmacht. I am pretty sure my mouth dropped open at several points. Among the people involved in the build-up is a man researching the origins of a song written about John Henry, a man who collects railroad stamps, a woman who owns a hotel in the town where the festival is taking place, a man so obsessed with John Henry that he turned his home into a museum dedicated to him, that man's daughter, a journalist covering the events of the weekend, and John Henry himself. Maya Jaggi, writing for The Guardian, praised John Henry Days, writing that it is "propelled by the quality of the writing and observation which, together with his serious intent, elevate it above frothier social satire. We can postpone arrival of the Grim Reaper, but inevitably his date of arrival will be reached. Mit den Umschlagplätzen des urbanen Pop-Lebens ist er bestens vertraut, und sein neues Buch „John Henry Days“ ist nicht nur ein eigenwilliges Porträt der amerikanischen Gesellschaft zwischen 1870 und 1996, sondern auch eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Zeitalter des Pop. On another level it’s the story of a disaffected, middle-aged black journalist on a mission to set a record for junketeering who attends the annual John Henry Days festival. This is a center which only barely manages to hold on to the multiple storylines, vignettes, flashbacks, ghost stories and Great American themes that Whitehead spins from it. There certainly is a lot of great journalism being produced these days, but when it comes to the Entertainment Combine, well, the Woodward and Bernsteins of pop culture are few and far between. That's a good line, isn't it? Mit neun oder zehn Jahren las ich vor allem Stephen King und Science-Fiction-Romane und dachte, es muss ein cooler Job sein, sich dieses groteske und dämliche Zeug ausdenken zu können und dabei nicht einmal vor die Tür gehen zu müssen.“ Ganz so wirklichkeitsabstinent war Colson Whitehead dann allerdings doch nicht. 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