The White Boy Shuffle
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Picador
Published: May 4, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312280192
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Fiction - General; African American men; Basketball players; West Los Angeles (Los Angeles,; Young men; Fiction
First sentence: UNLIKE THE TYPICAL bluesy earthy folksy denim-overalls noble-in-the-face-of-cracker-racism aw shucks Pulitzer-Prize-winning protagonist mojo magic black man, I am not the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son.
Description: An awkward black surfer bum is moved from Santa Monica to West Los Angeles, where he begins to undergo a transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, eventually becoming the reluctant hero of the neighborhood.