
A thous&-miles-an-hour hoot' Esquire Hilariousand immensely moving' The New Yorker A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life' New York Times 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 & 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 & cry at the same time Beatty mingles horrific reality with wild fancy in this outlandish laugh-out-loud funny & poignant vision of contemporary America