Tuff A Novel

Name: Tuff A Novel
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ISBN: 9780385721110

ISBN-10: 0385721110

ISBN-13: 9780385721110

Edition: N/A

Authors: Paul Beatty

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As fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays, Tuff shows off all of the amazing skill that Paul Beatty showed off in his first novel, The White Boy Shuffle. 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. Shrewdly comical as this dazzling novel is, it turns acerbically sublime when the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council.…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/21/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.572