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Slumberland

A Novel

Author: Paul Beatty

Slumberland

Slumberland

$16.00

About This Book

"Slumberland" is laugh-out-loud funny and its wit and satire can be burning...There are incredible moments of tenderness . . . Beatty is a kind of symphonic W.E.B. Du Bois." -Los Angeles Times
Page Count
256
On Sale
07/13/2021

Book Details

The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winning author, Paul Beatty, 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 creative 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 know 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 prevent defense, 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.

Imprint Publisher

Picador

ISBN

9781250789419

In The News

“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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Slumberland

Slumberland

$16.00