Paul Beatty Slumberland 3 Books Collection Set
Description
Slumberland
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.
The White Boy Shuffle
White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beattys 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
The Sellout
Whats more; Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair; the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school; which lands him in the Supreme Court.