Slumberland - by Paul Beatty (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Slumberland is laugh-out-loud funny and its wit and satire can be burning...There are incredible moments of tenderness . . . Beatty is a kind of symphonic W.E.B. Du Bois. <b><i>-Los Angeles Times</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger.</b> <p/>Hailed by the <i>New York Times</i> and the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> as one of the best writers of his generation, Paul Beatty turns his creative eye to man's search for meaning and identity in an increasingly chaotic world. <p/>After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know 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, the prevent defense, and Wynton Marsalis in search of his artistic-and spiritual-other. <p/>Ferocious, bombastic, and laugh-out-loud funny, <i>Slumberland</i> is vintage Paul Beatty and belongs on the shelf next to Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, and Junot Diaz.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"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." --<i>Washington Post</i> <p/>"A remarkably strange and funny meditation...revelatory and mind-blowing." --<i>Seattle Times</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Paul Beatty </b>is author of the novels <i>Slumberland, Tuff, The White Boy Shuffle</i>, <i> </i>and <i>The Sellout</i>, which won the 2016 Man Booker Prize<i>. </i>He has also written the poetry collections <i>Big Bank Take Little Bank</i> and <i>Joker, Joker, Deuce.</i> <i></i>He was the editor of <i>Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor</i>. He lives in New York City
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