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Author:

Beatty, Paul, author.

Title:

The white boy shuffle / Paul Beatty.

Edition:

Picador paperback reissue edition.

Publisher:

Picador,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

225 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Young men--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Fiction.
African American families--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Fiction.
African Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Fiction.
African Americans--Race identity--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Summary:

"Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle, 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.'" -- page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

1250808235
9781250808233

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1268472117

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)