From Paul Beatty, the author of the Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, comes Tuff, a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays.
Age nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston тАЬTuffyтАЭ Foshay is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of earning millions from his idea for CapтАЩn 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 he married his wife, Yolanda, over the phone from jail.
HeтАЩs funny and fierce, frustrated and feared. And when Tuff decides to run for City Council, this dazzling novel goes from astoundingly funny to acerbically sublime. By turns profound and irreverent, and populated with a hilarious supporting cast, Paul Beatty's Tuff is satire at its razor-sharp best.
тАЬAn extravagant, satirical cri de couer...BeattyтАЩs blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence has a kind of transfixing power.тАЭ тАФThe New York Times Book Review
тАЬMasterfully conceived and highly entertaining...Richly textured and unforgettable.тАЭтАФThe Boston Globe