Slumberland
From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout
Published on 4. May 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-78607-221-4 (ISBN)
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.
'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 / Votes
'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 *
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
243 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78607-221-4 (9781786072214)
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E-Book
03/2017
1st Edition
Oneworld Publications
€7.90
Available for download
Person
PAUL BEATTY is the author of the novels Slumberland, Tuff, The White Boy Shuffle and The Sellout, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2016. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce, and is the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. He lives in New York City.