Book description
The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger.
Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation,…
Why read it?
1 author picked Slumberland as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I have wanted to check out Beatty’s work for a long time. He is in a special class of prose authors who started writing poetry like the late great Denis Johnson.
This book is a dazzling display of Beatty’s phenomenal vocabulary and ability to use words in novel ways. What truly makes the book special is the expanse of what he covers in a book of just over 250 pages. Not only is it an education on music, but the book touches on numerous important themes.
Beatty brings a freshness to describing the city of Berlin, which feels both unique…
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