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The White Boy Shuffle: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout
Paul Beatty
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Paperback. The electrifying debut novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winner Paul Beatty Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. .
‘A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot.’ Esquire
‘Hilarious…and immensely moving.’ The New Yorker
‘A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life.’ New York Times
White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty’s electrifying debut novel about teenage-surf-bum Gunnar Kaufman who is forced to wise up when his mother moves from suburban Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighbourhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a ‘divided, downtrodden people’.
A bombastic coming-of-age novel that has the uncanny ability to make ... Read more
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Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786072252
SKU
V9781786072252
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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 The White Boy Shuffle: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout
‘A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot’
Esquire
‘A dazzling satire of the African-American urban experience’
Guardian
'He won the Booker for 2015's The Sellout but my heart belongs to Beatty's sharp-edged debut… It feels even more pertinent today.'
i newspaper
Esquire
‘A dazzling satire of the African-American urban experience’
Guardian
'He won the Booker for 2015's The Sellout but my heart belongs to Beatty's sharp-edged debut… It feels even more pertinent today.'
i newspaper