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The White Boy Shuffle

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Title Author Publisher Format Language Page Count Illustrator ISBN 13/10 Publish Date
The White Boy Shuffle Paul Beatty Picador Paperback English 225 9781250808233, 1250808235 9/7/2021

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The first novel from National Book Critics Circle Award and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout Paul Beatty’s hilarious and scathing debut novel is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a “divided, downtrodden people.”|”A bombastic coming-of-age novel….The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time.”–Los Angeles Times The first novel from National Book Critics Circle Award and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout Paul Beatty’s hilarious and scathing debut novel is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a “divided, downtrodden people.”|The White Boy Shuffle is the 1996 first novel of poet Paul Beatty. A satiric coming-of-age tale following the life of poet, basketball star, and self-described ?Negro Demagogue? Gunnar Kaufman, it has been noted for its postmodern treatment of African-American gender and sexuality in addition to race.

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