- Fiction, African American men, Basketball players, Young men
Paul Beatty, on the basis of two slim collections of poetry - Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce - has been called "a West Coast word wizard" and the "poet laureate of Generation X.".
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Contemporary, prestige, meticulous and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Paul Beatty
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Oneworld Publications, Minerva
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780613919623
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