{"product_id":"9781786072252","title":"The White Boy Shuffle : From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout - Paul Beatty","description":"\u003cp\u003e`A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot.' Esquire`Hilarious.and immensely moving.' The New Yorker`A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life.' New York TimesWhite 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Beatty","offers":[{"title":"288 pages \/ 04\/05\/2017 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56970510074231,"sku":"9781786072252","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781786072252.jpg?v=1780998656","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781786072252","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}