Book Details
⚡️Book Title : The White Boy Shuffle
⚡Book Author : Paul Beatty
⚡Page : 240 pages
⚡Published May 4th 2001 by Picador USA (first published June 12th 1996)
The White Boy Shuffle - White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beattys 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.
The White Boy Shuffle
White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beattys 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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