The White Boy Shuffle: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout

by PaulBeatty (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2017

  $10.73

  `A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot.' Esquire
  `Hilarious...and immensely moving.' The New Yorker
  `A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life.' New York Times

  White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty's 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.