Slumberland
Author(s): Paul Beatty
'Shockingly original' The Times 'A literary freestyler with brio to burn...scabrous and very funny' Guardian 'A no-holds-barred comedic romp' Junot Diaz After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, aka the Schwa, a little known avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods and the Berlin Wall in search of his artistic - and spiritual - other. Ferocious, bombastic and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is the second novel from Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty, a comic genius at the top of his game.
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'What Gore Vidal did for sex and gender constructs, Beatty does for race and prominent black Americans, with sacred cow-tipping on nearly every page. Waterfalls of wordplay that pool and merge like acid jazz on the page.' Washington Post 'A remarkably strange and funny meditation...revelatory and mind-blowing.' Seattle Times
General Fields
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- : Oneworld Publications
- : Oneworld Publications
- : 0.238
- : 30 April 2017
- : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
- : 01 March 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Paul Beatty
- : Paperback
- : 517
- : English
- : 256