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Slumberland: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout
Paul Beatty
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Description for Slumberland: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout
Paperback. The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winner Paul Beatty Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. .
‘Shockingly original’ The Times
‘A literary freestyler with brio to burn…scabrous and very funny’ Guardian
‘A no-holds-barred comedic romp’ Junot Diaz
After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, aka the Schwa, a little known avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods and the Berlin Wall in search of his artistic – and spiritual – other.
Ferocious, bombastic and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is the second novel ... Read more
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Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786072214
SKU
V9781786072214
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Ref
99-50
About Paul Beatty
PAUL BEATTY is the author of the novels Slumberland, Tuff, The White Boy Shuffle and The Sellout, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2016. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce, and is the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. He lives in New York ... Read more
Reviews for Slumberland: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout
‘What Gore Vidal did for sex and gender constructs, Beatty does for race and prominent black Americans, with sacred cow-tipping on nearly every page. Waterfalls of wordplay that pool and merge like acid jazz on the page.’
Washington Post
‘A remarkably strange and funny meditation…revelatory and mind-blowing.’
Seattle Times
Washington Post
‘A remarkably strange and funny meditation…revelatory and mind-blowing.’
Seattle Times