White Boy Shuffle
| AUTHOR | Beatty, Paul |
| PUBLISHER | Turtleback (01/01/2001) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Prebound) |
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A bombastic coming-of-age novel....The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time.--Los Angeles Times
The first novel from National Book Critics Circle Award and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout
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ISBN-13:
9781663625427
ISBN-10:
1663625425
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Library Binding)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
240
Carton Quantity:
0
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Fiction | Literary
Fiction | Satire
Fiction | African American & Black - General
Dewey Decimal:
FIC
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In Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel, Gunnar Kaufman is an awkward black surfer bum who moves from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar.
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A bombastic coming-of-age novel....The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time.--Los Angeles Times
The first novel from National Book Critics Circle Award and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout
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Author:
Beatty, Paul
Paul Beatty is the author of the novels, "Tuff, Slumberland "and "The White Boy Shuffle", and the poetry collections "Big Bank Take Little Bank "and "Joker, Joker, Deuce". He was the editor of "Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor". He lives in New York City.
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