Slumberland

Author: Paul Beatty

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  • : 19.99 AUD
  • : 9781786072214
  • : Oneworld Publications
  • : Oneworld Publications
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  • : 0.238
  • : April 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.99
  • : March 2017
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  • : Paul Beatty
  • : Paperback
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Description

'Shockingly original' The Times 'A literary freestyler with brio to burn...scabrous and very funny' Guardian 'A no-holds-barred comedic romp' Junot Diaz After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, aka the Schwa, a little known avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods and the Berlin Wall in search of his artistic - and spiritual - other. Ferocious, bombastic and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is the second novel from Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty, a comic genius at the top of his game.

Reviews

'What Gore Vidal did for sex and gender constructs, Beatty does for race and prominent black Americans, with sacred cow-tipping on nearly every page. Waterfalls of wordplay that pool and merge like acid jazz on the page.' Washington Post 'A remarkably strange and funny meditation...revelatory and mind-blowing.' Seattle Times