Tuff: A Novel

by Paul Beatty

2020-12-29 04:48:05

From the author of the 2016 Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout comes a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays.Age nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen wh... Read more
From the author of the 2016 Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout comes a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays.

Age nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea Cap’n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife, Yolanda, he married from jail over the phone. 

He’s funny and fierce, frustrated and feared. And when Tuff decides to run for City Council, this dazzling novel goes from profoundly funny to acerbically sublime. Populated with an incisively hilarious supporting case and filled with meaning and irreverent, Tuff is satire at its hard-edged best. Less

Book Details

File size8 X 5.2 X 0.6 in
Print pages272
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date August 21, 2001
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780385721110
Author
Paul Beatty is the author of the novels Tuff, Slumberland, The White Boy Shuffle and the 2016 Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, and the poetry collections Big Bank Take Little Bank a...

Compare Prices

Store Availability Book Format Condition Price
eBooks.com In Stock Buy USD 7.99
Indigo Books & Music In Stock Buy CAD 17.62
BetterWorld.com - New, Used, Rare Books & Textbooks In Stock Buy USD 11.07
eBooks.comIn Stock
Format
Condition
Buy USD 7.99
Indigo Books & MusicIn Stock
Format
Condition
Buy CAD 17.62
BetterWorld.com - New, Used, Rare Books & TextbooksIn Stock
Format
Condition
Buy USD 11.07
Available Discount
No Discount available

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free