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"Laugh-out-loud funny and weep-in-silence sad . . . The language is always vibrant and alluring."?The Nation
Picador
May 2001
240 pages ISBN: 031228019X Trade Size
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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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