White boy shuffle

R$ 70,90

Sinopse

A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot.' Esquire‘Hilarious…and immensely moving.' The New Yorker‘A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life.' New York TimesThe White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty's electrifying debut novel about teenage-surf-bum Gunnar Kaufman who is forced to wise up when his mother moves from suburban Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighbourhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a ‘divided, downtrodden people'. A bombastic coming-of-age novel that has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time,Beatty mingles horrific reality with wild fancy in this outlandish, laugh-out-loud funny and poignant vision of contemporary America.

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.