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Also by Paul Beatty:

Tuff, February 2021
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Slumberland, February 2021
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Hokum, January 2006
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Tuff, August 2001
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White Boy Shuffle, May 2001
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WHITE BOY SHUFFLE
By: Paul Beatty

"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
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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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Talk of the Nation - February 6, 2006