Slumberland - Softcover

Beatty, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846552427 ISBN 13: 9781846552427

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2008

Synopsis

The break-out novel from a literary virtuoso about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger.

Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation, Paul Beatty turns his creative eye to man's search for meaning and identity in an increasingly chaotic world.

After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little known avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods and Wynton Marsalis in search of his artistic - and spiritual - other.

Ferocious, bombastic, and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is vintage Paul Beatty and belongs on the shelf next to Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, and Junot Díaz.

About this title

Review:

`a startling book...funny, tragic and imminently unforgettable'.

About the Author:

Paul Beatty is the author of two novels, Tuff and The White Boy Shuffle, and two books of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1846552427
• ISBN 13: 9781846552427
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256