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The electrifying debut novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winner Paul Beatty

About the Author

PAUL BEATTY is the author of the novels Slumberland, Tuff, The White Boy Shuffle and The Sellout, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2016. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce, and is the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

‘A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot’   
*Esquire*

‘A dazzling satire of the African-American urban experience’ 
*Guardian*

'He won the Booker for 2015's The Sellout but my heart belongs to Beatty's sharp-edged debut… It feels even more pertinent today.'
*i newspaper*