false 57875277 465700 2116687 1596912405 9781596912403 31 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2116687.Slumberland_A_Novel 3.81 106 Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation, Paul Beatty turns his incisive 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-known 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 and belongs on the shelf next to Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, and Junot Diaz.</div></div>]]> 44076 4.02 1122 184 4 0 false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 13:47:26 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 13:47:39 -0700 2009