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The white boy shuffle / Paul Beatty.
LIBRA - Special PS3552.E19 W45 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beatty, Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American men--Fiction.
- African American men.
- Basketball players--Fiction.
- Basketball players.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- Surfers--Fiction.
- Surfers.
- West Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Fiction.
- West Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Humorous fiction.
- Bildungsromane.
- California--Los Angeles--West Los Angeles.
- Local Subjects:
- Humorous fiction.
- Bildungsromane.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 225 pages ; 21 cm
- "First published in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Company--T.pages verso
- Edition:
- First Picador USA edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador, 2001.
- Summary:
- An awkward black surfer bum is moved from Santa Monica to West Los Angeles, where he begins to undergo a transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, eventually becoming the reluctant hero of the neighborhood.
- ISBN:
- 031228019X
- 9780312280192
- OCLC:
- 47120288
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