Paul Beatty
The White Boy Shuffle
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¿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 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 reader…
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¿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 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 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.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78607-225-2
- EAN: 9781786072252
- Produktnummer: 22343590
- Verlag: Oneworld Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.0 cm 275 g
- Gewicht: 275
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