The White Boy Shuffle - Softcover

Beatty, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395742803 ISBN 13: 9780395742808

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1996

Synopsis

A celebrated young black poet offers a partly autobiographical coming-of-age novel, a multicultural, multi-generational story filled with the cadences of the urban streets and the media of pop culture. A first novel. National ad/promo.

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Review:

"Paul Beatty's hip-hop epic never misses a beat in telling how a nerdy black kid from a white-bread neighbourhood becomes an infamous inner-city poet laureate, via an obligatory stint as a local basketball hero and some daredevilling as a member of the Gun Totin' Hooligans. Simultaneously hilarious and immensely moving, Beatty's Pynchonesque non sequiturs cascade with the seeming ease of an Armstrong trill" ( New Yorker)

"A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life... aimed almost as much at black self-delusion and revolutionary pretension as at the surrounding racism of white society... a rich, raucous, hilarious, overdone porridge full of the various ingredients of the daily absurdist American spectacle" ( New York Times)

"A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot" ( Esquire)

"A dazzling satire of the African-American urban experience" (Patrick Neate Guardian)

About the Author:

Paul Beatty is the author of the poetry collections Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce, and the novels Tuff and, most recently Slumberland. He lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0395742803
• ISBN 13: 9780395742808
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 225