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SlumberlandSlumberland

Slumberland

A Novel

Paul Beatty

3.8(3)on Hardcover

About this book

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.

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OL Work ID
OL14952484W

Subjects

African American men in fictionMusicians in fictionMusiciansAfrican Americans in fictionAfrican American menFictionAfrican AmericansHistoryLiterature & Fiction -- ComicFiction, historicalAfrican americans, fictionMusicians, fictionBerlin (germany), fictionFiction, historical, generalGermany, fictionFiction, general

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