Paul Beatty
As fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays, Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams... shows off all of the amazing skill that Paul Beatty [... more]
Random House |
Tuff: A Novel
 Amazon.com Review: Paul Beatty's eponymous protagonist, Tuffy, wouldn't seem the type to sidle up too close to the word adorable. At 300 pounds, this thug is a true heavyweight in his East Harlem neighborhood. He robs, he kills, he gets high. But by the [... more]
$13.00
Amazon.com |
Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature
Examines the ways in which American fiction writers and poets have used sports figures and sporting events in order to comment on issues of race, gender, class, and nationalityExamining sports literature in the context of American literature, these 17 [... more]
$87.17
A1 Books |
The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel
Paul Beatty goes upside your head doing the white boy shuffle--a simple side-to-side step--and then down the other side with this exuberant and engaging debut novel. A Los Angeles Times bestseller, this expansive satirical tale is rich with explosive [... more]
$1.56
A1 Books |
Way Out of No Way
Jacqueline Woodson has won numerous awards for her novels, including Coretta Scott King Honors for From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun and I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This. She lives in Brooklyn, New York."A distinguished anthology of excerpts from [... more]
$1.88
A1 Books |
Everyday People
NEAR MISS: I can understand why this book may be compelling to those who are not: a)from Pittsburgh, b)looking for a intricately crafted story line, and most importantly c)African American. As the author notes near the end, maybe for a split second he [... more]
$10.00
Amazon.com |
Slumberland: A Novel
Simply amazing: As a German living in Los Angeles (well Pasadena, but you know what I am saying) I just couldn't put down Slumberland. There were a couple of unfortunate mistakes in the German expressions used in the book but I have rarely seen any [... more]
$24.99
Amazon.com |
Biography - Beatty, Paul (1963(?)-): An article from: ...
Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 4 Publication Date: 2003-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
$9.95
Amazon.com |
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor
It's OK if I like this book too, right?: Just wondering. As a (typically?) paranoid Anglo-American, I may not "get" the secret messages in many of the selections that may or may not be there for an African-American reader, but I found most of [... more]
$16.95
Amazon.com |
Big Bank Take Little Bank: New Cafe Poets, No.1
Author: Paul Beatty Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54 EAN: 9780962784279 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0962784273 Number Of Pages: 74 Publication Date: 1991-02 [... more]
$9.95
Amazon.com |
The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: This is a laugh-out-loud first novel, but be forewarned: Paul Beatty's humor is literate, but in- your-face outrageous. The faint of heart (or politically correct) should stay away. The White Boy Shuffle is a gleefully satiric gloss on [... more]
$13.00
Amazon.com |
The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: 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 [... more]
$14.00
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