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‘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.



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‘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 *

Slumberland: From the Man Booker prize-winning

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    A Paperback / softback by Paul Beatty

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      Publisher Oneworld Publications
      Published 4 May 2017
      ISBN-13 9781786072214
      978-1786072214
      ISBN-10 1786072211
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ‘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.



      Trade Review

      ‘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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