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(Nineteen-year-old Winston 'Tuffy' Foshay - 320 pounds, new father to a baby boy he
greets cheerfully with 'What up, little nigger?', player-king of a motley crew in Spanish Harlem - is looking for a purpose in life, for the answer to his exasperated wife Yolanda's question, 'Winston, what you gonna do?'
After narrowly escaping death - by fainting - in a drug deal gone bad, Tuff knows he
needs to make some decisions, and soon, with or without the help of his tight Harlem circle - his scheming, disabled best friend Fariq, aka Smush; his Beat-poet Black Panther father, Clifford; Inez, the Marxist revolutionary who raised him, and his bewildered mentor from the Big Brother programme, the hapless African-American rabbi Spencer Throckmorton. So when Inez offers him $20,000 to run for city council, he gamely embarks on one of the most outrageous campaigns in political history, one that changes both his vision of the world and his place in it.
Fuelled by the ferocious wit and outrage that drove Beatty's extraordinary debut, The White Boy Shuffl, Tuff sees his manic energy taken to new heights of verbal dazzle)
greets cheerfully with 'What up, little nigger?', player-king of a motley crew in Spanish Harlem - is looking for a purpose in life, for the answer to his exasperated wife Yolanda's question, 'Winston, what you gonna do?'
After narrowly escaping death - by fainting - in a drug deal gone bad, Tuff knows he
needs to make some decisions, and soon, with or without the help of his tight Harlem circle - his scheming, disabled best friend Fariq, aka Smush; his Beat-poet Black Panther father, Clifford; Inez, the Marxist revolutionary who raised him, and his bewildered mentor from the Big Brother programme, the hapless African-American rabbi Spencer Throckmorton. So when Inez offers him $20,000 to run for city council, he gamely embarks on one of the most outrageous campaigns in political history, one that changes both his vision of the world and his place in it.
Fuelled by the ferocious wit and outrage that drove Beatty's extraordinary debut, The White Boy Shuffl, Tuff sees his manic energy taken to new heights of verbal dazzle)
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‘If there really were a hip-hop nation, Paul Beatty would be its poet laureate.’
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An extravagant, satirical cri de coeur from the inner city.... Tuff is a funny book, and Mr. Beatty’s blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence has a...transfixing power.’
(New York Times)The new, blazingly funny novel by one of the world's most talented youn g voices
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- PublisherSecker
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0436410672
- ISBN 13 9780436410673
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