Tuff

R$ 131,90

Sinopse

From the author of the 2016 Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout comes a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays.Age nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea Cap’n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife, Yolanda, he married from jail over the phone. He’s funny and fierce, frustrated and feared. And when Tuff decides to run for City Council, this dazzling novel goes from profoundly funny to acerbically sublime. Populated with an incisively hilarious supporting case and filled with meaning and irreverent, Tuff is satire at its hard-edged best.

Participantes

Autor: Paul Beatty

Autor

PAUL BEATTY

Paul Beatty (Los Angeles – EUA, 1962) é escritor, poeta e professor. Publica seus poemas desde 1991 e chegou a vencer competições de Poetry Slam. Em 2016, tornou-se o primeiro autor americano a ganhar o Man Booker Prize com o romance O vendido (2017), em que trata com humor cáustico do racismo no Estados Unidos. Organizou Hokum (2006), uma antologia do humor afro-americano. Vive em Nova York, onde leciona escrita criativa na Universidade de Columbia.