The White Boy Shuffle - Couverture rigide

Beatty, Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0395742803 ISBN 13 : 9780395742808

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1996

Synopsis

Book by Beatty Paul

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Paul Beatty's hip-hop epic never misses a beat in telling how a nerdy black kid from a white-bread neighbourhood becomes an infamous inner-city poet laureate, via an obligatory stint as a local basketball hero and some daredevilling as a member of the Gun Totin' Hooligans. Simultaneously hilarious and immensely moving, Beatty's Pynchonesque non sequiturs cascade with the seeming ease of an Armstrong trill" ( New Yorker)

"A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life... aimed almost as much at black self-delusion and revolutionary pretension as at the surrounding racism of white society... a rich, raucous, hilarious, overdone porridge full of the various ingredients of the daily absurdist American spectacle" ( New York Times)

"A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot" ( Esquire)

"A dazzling satire of the African-American urban experience" (Patrick Neate Guardian)

Présentation de l'éditeur

Born into a long line of uncle Toms - including an ancestor who escaped into slavery and a relative who set up Malcolm X - Gunnar Kaufman grew up doing the perfect white boy shuffle in Santa Monica. Now the street-stupid kid has to learn - and fast - how to survive the hard-line homeboys of inner-city LA, in one of the funniest, funkiest books for years.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0395742803
• ISBN 13: 9780395742808
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 225