num_pages: 240
description: White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty’s electrifying debut novel about teenage-surf-bum Gunnar Kaufman who is forced to wise up when his mother moves from suburban Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighbourhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a ‘divided, downtrodden people’. A bombastic coming-of-age novel that has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time,Beatty mingles horrific reality with wild fancy in this outlandish, laugh-out-loud funny and poignant vision of contemporary America.
language: English
title: The White Boy Shuffle
titlecomplete: The White Boy Shuffle
genres: American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Race, African American, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 5566
publisher: Picador