{"product_id":"the-white-boy-shuffle-9780395742808","title":"The White Boy Shuffle","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Beatty  on the basis of two slim collections of poetry - Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker  Joker  Deuce - has been called \"a West Coast word wizard\" and the \"poet laureate of Generation X.\" The White Boy Shuffle is a moving  deft satire on issues of race as well as the tale of the coming of age of Gunnar Kaufman  a contemporary African American who is in no way typical. Unequivocally and without apology  Gunnar states that he is not the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son. Indeed  he wishes he were  but fate has shorted him by six brothers and three uncles  cruelly cheating him out of his mythological inheritance. And thus  unforgettably  begins the story of Gunnars rocky expedition to manhood. With his unparalleled ability to recreate the rhythms of everyday speech  to cut  mix  and recombine language in order to evoke a whole new world of experience  Paul Beatty here establishes himself as one of the most original and inventive writers of our time. A combination of literary and street  at once intimate and breathtakingly expansive  The White Boy Shuffle is a multicultural  multigenerational epic that is exuberant  engaging  and in the moment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67963353399349,"sku":"ByrdShop_0395742803","price":82.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780395742808.jpg?v=1794541974","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-white-boy-shuffle-9780395742808","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}