Bücher von Paul Beatty

A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) ';Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times ';The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian ';The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read.' New York Times A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral. What's 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. In his trademark absurdist style, which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh and cry, The Sellout is an outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of our time.

';A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot.' Esquire ';Hilariousand immensely moving.' The New Yorker ';A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life.' New York Times White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty's 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'. A bombastic coming-of-age novel that has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time,Beatty mingles horrific reality with wild fancy in this outlandish, laugh-out-loud funny and poignant vision of contemporary America.

An electrifying collection of poems from the author of The Sellout, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize Originally published in 1994, Paul Beatty's second volume of poetry won praise for the way it "pushes the boundaries of free verse while assessing the landscapes of African American autobiography" (Bomb Magazine). In these poems, which explore aspects of race, identity, and popular culture, Beatty was honing the comic, satirical voice and vivid imagination that came to full realization in his acclaimed fiction. Joker, Joker, Deuce "moves to fierce urban rhythms, both cool and hot," writes Jessica Hagedorn. "A rush of intense visual images and electric word music."

Eine bissige, kühne Satire von einem der wichtigsten amerikanischen Schriftsteller der Gegenwart.Dickens, ein Vorort von Los Angeles, ist der Schandfleck der amerikanischen Westküste: verarmt, verroht, verloren. Zugleich ist es der ganze Stolz seiner schwarzen Einwohner, eine Bastion gegen die weiße Vorherrschaft. Hier zieht der Erzähler von "Der Verräter" friedlich Wassermelonen und Marihuana. Doch als sein bürgerrechtsbewegter Vater durch Polizeigewalt stirbt und die Gentrifizierung den gesamten Vorort auszuradieren droht, wird er unversehens zum Anführer einer neuen Bewegung: Mit seinem Kompagnon Hominy, alternder Leinwandheld aus "Die kleinen Strolche", führt er Sklaverei und Rassentrennung wieder ein ...

Ein Berlin-Roman, wie es noch keinen gibt: DJ Darky kommt aus New York in die deutsche Hauptstadt, um einen abgetauchten Jazzer aufzuspüren. Es ist die Zeit des Mauerfalls, in der plötzlich alles möglich scheint. In der Bar "Slumberland", wo DJ Darky sich als "Jukebox-Sommelier" verdingt, entdeckt er seine sexuelle Macht, den Musikgeschmack von Neonazis und das Leben der Ostdeutschen, das ihn zusehends an das Leben der Afroamerikaner im amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg erinnert... Virtuos spielt Paul Beatty mit den Verhältnissen zwischen den Geschlechtern, zwischen Schwarz und Weiß, Ost und West, Jazz und Techno und mischt daraus einen aufregenden neuen Sound.