Paul Beatty
Paul Beatty is the author of two novels, "Tuff "and “The White Boy Shuffle,” and two books of poetry, “Big Bank Take Little Bank” and “Joker, Joker, Deuce,” He is the editor of “Hokum: An Anthology of African- American Humor,” He lives in New York City.
Paul Beatty's Books
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Slumberland (0)
The breakout novel from a literary virtuoso about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger.
Hailed by the “New York Times” and the “Los Angeles Times” as one of the best writers of his generation, Paul Beatty turns his incisive eye to man’s search for me…
Tuff (0)
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.
Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from h…
White Boy (0)
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…
