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As fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays, Tuff shows off all of the amazing skill that Paul Beatty showed off in his first novel, The White Boy Shuffle.
Anchor
August 2001
272 pages ISBN: 0385721110 Trade Size (reprint)
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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. Shrewdly comical as
this dazzling novel is, it turns acerbically sublime when
the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council. Smartly
irreverent and edgily fierce, Tuff is a bona fide original.
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