Tuff

Beatty, Paul

3.78

1,318 ratings by Goodreads

ISBN 10: 1536627356 ISBN 13: 9781536627350

Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, 2016

As fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays, Tuff shows off all of the amazing skill that Paul Beatty showed off in his first novel, The White Boy Shuffle.

Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea, Cap'n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife, Yolanda, he married from jail over the phone.

Shrewdly comical as this dazzling novel is, it turns acerbically sublime when the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council. Smartly irreverent and edgily fierce, Tuff is a bona fide original.

� Cover photo: Saul Fletcher

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Review:

‘If there really were a hip-hop nation, Paul Beatty would be its poet laureate.’

(Vibe)

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)

Book Description:

The new, blazingly funny novel by one of the world's most talented youn g voices

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