Tuff
Paul Beatty
From Paul Beatty, the author of the Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, comes Tuff, a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays. Age nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of earning millions from his idea for Cap'n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and he married his wife, Yolanda, over the phone from jail. He's funny and fierce, frustrated and feared. And when Tuff decides to run for City Council, this dazzling novel goes from astoundingly funny to acerbically sublime. By turns profound and irreverent, and populated with a hilarious supporting cast, Paul Beatty's Tuff is satire at its razor-sharp best. "An extravagant, satirical cri de couer...Beatty's blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence has a kind of transfixing power." --The New York Times Book Review "Masterfully conceived and highly entertaining...Richly textured and unforgettable."--The Boston GlobeBinding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Paul BeattyPublisher: Picador USAPublished: 07/13/2021ISBN: 9781250788337Pages: 272Weight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Paul Beatty
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 07/13/2021
ISBN: 9781250788337
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Paul Beatty
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 07/13/2021
ISBN: 9781250788337
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
Book Title
Tuff
ISBN
9781250788337
From Paul Beatty, the author of the Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, comes Tuff, a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays.
Age nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of earning millions from his idea for Cap'n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and he married his wife, Yolanda, over the phone from jail. He's funny and fierce, frustrated and feared. And when Tuff decides to run for City Council, this dazzling novel goes from astoundingly funny to acerbically sublime. By turns profound and irreverent, and populated with a hilarious supporting cast, Paul Beatty's Tuff is satire at its razor-sharp best. "An extravagant, satirical cri de couer...Beatty's blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence has a kind of transfixing power." --The New York Times Book Review "Masterfully conceived and highly entertaining...Richly textured and unforgettable."--The Boston GlobeBinding Type: Paperback
Author: Paul Beatty
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 07/13/2021
ISBN: 9781250788337
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
From Paul Beatty, the author of the Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, comes Tuff, a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays.
Age nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of earning millions from his idea for Cap'n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and he married his wife, Yolanda, over the phone from jail. He's funny and fierce, frustrated and feared. And when Tuff decides to run for City Council, this dazzling novel goes from astoundingly funny to acerbically sublime. By turns profound and irreverent, and populated with a hilarious supporting cast, Paul Beatty's Tuff is satire at its razor-sharp best. "An extravagant, satirical cri de couer...Beatty's blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence has a kind of transfixing power." --The New York Times Book Review "Masterfully conceived and highly entertaining...Richly textured and unforgettable."--The Boston GlobeBinding Type: Paperback
Author: Paul Beatty
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 07/13/2021
ISBN: 9781250788337
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d