The White Boy Shuffle
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...
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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."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312280192 (031228019X)
Publish date: May 4th 2001
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
This book is hilarious - the funniest Ive read out the ones Ive added on here by far
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