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Slumberland

  • Paul Beatty

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The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger.

Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation, Paul Beatty turns his creative eye to man's search for meaning and identity in an increasingly chaotic world.

After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know 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 , the prevent defense, and Wynton Marsalis in search of his artistic-and spiritual-other.

Ferocious, bombastic, and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is vintage Paul Beatty.

Genres

  • African American men in fiction
  • Musicians in fiction
  • Musicians
  • African Americans in fiction
  • African American men
  • Fiction
  • African Americans
  • History
  • Literature & Fiction -- Comic
  • Fiction, historical
  • African americans, fiction
  • Musicians, fiction
  • Berlin (germany), fiction
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • Germany, fiction
  • Fiction, general
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  • Paul Beatty

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Editions

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    Farrar, Straus & Giroux

    2021

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    Bloomsbury USA, Bloomsbury, Distributed to the trade by Macmillan

    May 27, 2008

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    Bloomsbury USA

    August 4, 2009

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    Oneworld Publications

    2017-05-04

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Penguin Random House

2010

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    Penguin Random House

    2009

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    Penguin Random House

    2008

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    Oneworld Publications

    2017

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    Picador

    Feb 02, 2021