The White Boy Shuffle

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout

von Paul Beatty

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

'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 TimesWhite Boy Shuffle is Booker Prize-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 readers want to laugh and cry at the same time,Beatty mingles horrific reality with wild fancy in this outlandish, laugh-out-loud funny and poignant vision of contemporary America.

• Reihe: Oneworld Publications
• ISBN: 9781786072252
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.05.2017
• Größe: 193 x 126 mm
• Verlag: OneWorld Publications