{"product_id":"9781786072252","title":"The White Boy Shuffle : From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot.’ Esquire‘Hilarious…and immensely moving.’ The New Yorker‘A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life.’ New York TimesWhite Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty’s electrifying debut novel about teenage-surf-bum Gunnar Kaufman who is forced to wise up when his mother moves from suburban Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighbourhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a ‘divided, downtrodden people’.  A bombastic coming-of-age novel that has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time,Beatty mingles horrific reality with wild fancy in this outlandish, laugh-out-loud funny and poignant vision of contemporary America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shelf-Made.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52063934415176,"sku":"9781786072252","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/1260\/5000\/files\/9781786072252_aa8d4b3c-dac6-446b-8629-da8c78c159f5.jpg?v=1764087006","url":"https:\/\/shelfmadebooks.com\/products\/9781786072252","provider":"Shelf-Made.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}