Slumberland: A Novel
by Paul Beatty
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Author: Paul BeattyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-10
ISBN: 1596912405
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
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Book Review: Beatty Begets Berliin Beat
Summary: 5 Stars
Beatty has written a wise and funny glimpse of African-American angst as seen through the paradiddles of noise masquerading as music. The story may be set in Germany during The Wall collapse, but the text mirrors the culture and attitude of American thought, juxtaposing post-Nazi German population coping with the sins of the past with post-Lincoln African-American life still muddling through the oppression of past and present; all played to the funkiest jukebox in Berlin. A great read...
Summary of Slumberland: A Novel
The breakout novel from a literary virtuoso about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger.
Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation, Paul Beatty turns his incisive eye to man's search for meaning and identity in an increasingly chaotic world.
After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, 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, the preventdefense, and Wynton Marsalis in search of his artistic-and spiritual-other.
Ferocious, bombastic, and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is vintage Paul Beatty and belongs on the shelf next to Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, and Junot Diaz.
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