The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel

The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel
by Paul Beatty

The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel
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Author: Paul Beatty
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-05-04
ISBN: 031228019X
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Picador
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Summary of The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel

Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a "divided, downtrodden people."
Poet Paul Beatty?s (Big Bank Take Little Bank) first novel is a colorful situation comedy about an unusual African-American's search for his identity. Set within a dramatically caricatured ethnic and cultural landscape, Gunnar Kaufman is a street poet and basketball prodigy raised in predominantly white Santa Monica, whose father is a member of the LAPD. The Kaufmans come from a hilarious family line of groveling Uncle Toms, and as Gunnar faces varying degrees of racism, he struggles between falling into step with the family tradition or forging his own way.

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