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The White Boy Shuffle

The White Boy Shuffle( )
Author: Beatty, Paul
ISBN:978-0-7493-9495-0
Publication Date:Mar 1997
Publisher:Ebury Publishing
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $27.99
Book Description:

Born into a long line of uncle Toms - including an ancestor who escaped into slavery and a relative who set up Malcolm X - Gunnar Kaufman grew up doing the perfect white boy shuffle in Santa Monica. Now the street-stupid kid has to learn - and fast - how to survive the hard-line homeboys of inner-city LA, in one of the funniest, funkiest books for years.

Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Fiction / African American & Black / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.9 x 19.9 x 1.8 cm
Book Weight:0.219 Kilograms
Author Biography
Beatty, Paul (Author)
Paul Beatty was born in Los Angeles, California in 1962. He received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA in psychology from Boston University. In 1990, he became the first Grand Poetry Slam Champion of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. One of the prizes for winning was the book deal, which resulted in his first collection of poetry, Big Bank Takes Little Bank. His novels include The White Boy Shuffle, Tuff, and Slumberland. The Sellout won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

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