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Beatty, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0375401229 ISBN 13: 9780375401220

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

Riassunto

The author of The White Boy Shuffle returns with a witty, unproarious comic novel about a nineteen-year-old kid who is bribed to run for city council by his mentor, an African-American rabbi named Spencer Jefferson. 40,000 first printing.

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Praise for Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle
"In the aftermath of slavery, black Americans found little freedom. The shackles were off our ankles and wrists, but they were not forgotten; our minds wore chains, even as our bodies mimed freedom. Paul Beatty's fiction breaks these spiritual shackles that so many of us wear. His irreverent and daring prose
challenges our vision of ourselves, and when his characters win the game of freedom, they won't be going to some Florida theme park." --Walter Mosley

"A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life, a kind of literary parodic counterpart to hip-hop and stand-up comedy . . . Rich, raucous, hilarious." --Richard Bernstein, New York Times

"If there really were a Hip-Hop Nation, Beatty would be its poet laureate . . . The White Boy Shuffle is a comic novel with a bite like a great white shark. It reopens old wounds so fiendishly that you can't laugh without crying . . . This is a brave, brilliant book."
                                                                  --Greg Tate, Vibe

"Full of poetry skillfully metamorphosed into prose, Beatty's book is a clout upside your head delivered by the deacon nearest to the pew that you have been playing in. Laugh-out-loud funny and weep-in-silence sad." --Nick Charles, The Nation

"His hip-hop epic never misses a beat . . . Immensely moving, Beatty's Pynchonesque non sequiturs cascade with the seeming ease of an Armstrong trill."
--The New Yorker

L'autore:

Paul Beatty has published two volumes of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce  and one novel, The White Boy Shuffle. He lives in New York City.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375401229
• ISBN 13: 9780375401220
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 259