Paul Beatty Libros Populares
Paul Beatty Biografía y Hechos
Paul Beatty (Los Ángeles, 9 de junio de 1962) es un escritor estadounidense y profesor de redacción en la Universidad de Columbia.[1] Biografía Nacido en Los Ángeles en 1962, en 1980 se diplomó en el El Camino Real High School de Woodland Hills, California. Obtuvo un máster en escritura creativa en el Brooklyn College y un máster en psicología en la Universidad de Boston.[2] En 1990, Beatty ganó el slam del Nuyorican Poets Café, en Manhattan. Como premio, publicó su primer poemario Big Bank Take Little Bank.[3] En 2006, compiló una antología de humor afroamericano Hokum.[4] En 2016, ganó el Premio del Círculo de Críticos Nacional del Libro y el Premio Booker con su sátira El vendido.[5] Obra Poesía Big Bank Take Little Bank, 1991 Joker, Joker, Deuce, 1994 Novelas 1996: The White Boy Shuffle 2000: Tuff 2008: Slumberland 2015: El vendido Referencias. Descubre los libros populares de Paul Beatty. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Paul Beatty
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Passengers
William StillDiscover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroa...
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In Praise of Hatred
Khaled Khalifa & Leri Price1980s Syria, our young narrator is living a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents in Aleppo. Her three aunts, Maryam the pious one; Safa...
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The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (Volume I)
Cao XueqinThe Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, The Golden Days, begins the tale of Baoyu, a gentle young boy who ...
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An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie ObiomaSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019From the author of the Bookershortlisted novel, The FishermenFINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2019 'Obioma is truly the heir to Chinua Achebe' New...
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Lunar Caustic
Malcolm Lowry'Staring out at the river his agony was like a great lidless eye'In this stark, compelling and greatly autobiographical novella, Malcolm Lowry tells the story of Bill Plantagenet, ...
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The Fat Chance Guide to Dieting
Claudia PattisonThink nothing tastes as good as slim feels? You're obviously not eating the right food . . .Holly, Naomi and Kate are determined to win the battle of the bulge. So it's down to the...
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The Man of Feeling
Javier MaríasThe Man of Feeling is a story of love and memory by Javier Marías, whose highlyanticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a...
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Hodd
Adam ThorpeWho was Robin Hood? Romantic legend casts him as outlaw, archer, and hero of the people, living in Sherwood Forest with Friar Tuck, Little John and Maid Marian, stealing from the r...
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More Tales Of The City
Armistead MaupinThe second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga.‘Entertains, illuminates… A cultural touchstone that has enlarged our un...
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Michael Tolliver Lives
Armistead MaupinThe seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga.'Tenderhearted and frolicsome… A tale of longlost friends and unrealise...
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The Great Fortune
Olivia ManningAutumn, 1939. Newlyweds Guy and Harriet Pringle step aboard the train to Bucharest. Guy's lecturing job awaits, alongside friends and the everardent Sophie but for Harriet, al...
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Mary Ann in Autumn
Armistead MaupinThe eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga.'Perhaps the most sublime piece of popular literature America has ever p...
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Shear
Tim ParksAn English geologist working on a Mediterranean island becomes embroiled in a nightmare web of deceit, corruption, lust and tragedy in Tim Parks' mesmeric story of a man whose ...
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They Come in All Colors
Malcolm Hansen2019 First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationAn “urgent and heartrending novel about an America on the brink” (Matt Gallagher, author of Young...
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After Me, The Deluge
David ForrestThis is the story of a young priest in the tiny French village of St. PierredesMonts who receives a telephone call from God warning that he is about to destroy mankind with a secon...
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Swift As Desire
Laura EsquivelDon Jubilo entered the world smiling rather than crying like other babies, and his life mission is to bring happiness to everyone's lives. Even as a young boy, acting as interprete...
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D. H. Lawrence and Italy
D. H. Lawrence & Michael SquiresIn these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay am...
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The Echo Chamber
John Boyne'His relish is infectious' Times'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Rankin'Funny, rumbustious, unstinting and wonderfully Hogarthian' The Observer'Shar...
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Castle of Water
Dane HuckelbridgeHome is where the heart isBarry Bleecker wanted to trade in his dreary life for one of adventure and art. Until he finds himself washed up on a deserted beach with only four pairs ...
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The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights
Malcolm Lyons & Ursula LyonsEvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier'...
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The Jewels of Paradise
Donna LeonFrom the bestselling author of the Brunetti crime series comes The Jewels of Paradise, a gripping tale of intrigue, music, history and greed and Donna Leon's first standalone novel...
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The Sellout: A Novel by Paul Beatty: Conversation Starters
dailyBooksThe Sellout: A Novel by Paul Beatty | Conversation Starters The awardwinning book by TaNehisi Coates entitled Between the World and Me, published in 2015, is authored as a series ...
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The Italian
Ann Radcliffe & Robert MilesFrom the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and mani...
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The Cold Millions
Jess Walter'A beautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history...funny and harrowing, sweet and violent, innocent and experienced; it walks a dozen tightropes' Anthony...
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Take A Look At Me Now
Anita NotaroMost of us can remember a defining moment in our lives. A split second when time stood still and our lives changed forever. For Lily Ormond, that moment came late one night when sh...
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The Earth
Émile ZolaWhen Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same land for generations, he quickly finds himself involved in the corrupt affairs of ...
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Identitti
Mithu Sanyal & Alta L. Price"Provocative and knotty . . . Identitti is a bracing story, one in which Sanyal refuses to give us the easy way out."Olivia Craighead, The New York TimesNivedita (a.k.a. Identitti)...
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Blackwater
Kerstin EkmanStartling in its revelations, disturbing in its implications a thriller of gripping intensity and immense literary power. Two violent deaths in the Swedish wilderness; the hurried...
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Cod
Mark Kurlansky'Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read? And yet this is precisely what Kurlansky has done' Express on SundayThe Cod. Wars have been fought over it, r...
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Less
Andrew Sean GreerWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 A New York Times Notable Book of 2017A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017Longlisted fo...
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Villages
John UpdikeOwen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he emba...
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Hellhound on his Trail
Hampton SidesHellhound on His Trail is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s: one was a thief and co...
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Dog Years
Mark DotyWhy do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden ...
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The Sellout: A Novel by Paul Beatty (Trivia/Quiz Reads)
WhizbooksStart reading The Sellout: A Novel by Paul Beatty (Trivia / Quiz Reads) in a new approach to take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! ...
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Erasure
Percival EverettAdapted into the Oscarnominated major motion picture, American Fiction.'Truly brilliant.' Los Angeles Review of Books 'A classic.' The Times 'A remarkable novel.' Wall Stre...
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The Sellout: A Novel by Paul Beatty (Trivia-On-Books)
Trivia-On-BooksDon’t miss this edition of The Sellout by Paul Beatty (TriviaOnBooks) Published in 2015, The Sellout is a novel set in Los Angeles, where the protagonist Me, makes a living growing...
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My Revolutions
Hari KunzruIt’s the day before Mike Frame’s fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn’t matter, because it’s not his life in the first p...
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The First Book of Calamity Leek
Paula LichtarowiczBrilliantly inventive and original. This debut novel tells the story of Calamity Leek: a girl who has never been allowed beyond the garden wall, until now.Lying in her hospital bed...
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Beautiful Days
Zach WilliamsDeeply uncanny and hauntingly resonant – strange stories about modern America, for fans of George Saunders, Mariana Enriquez and Paul Beatty'One of 2024’s superlative debuts, remin...
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Pricksongs & Descants
Robert CooverIn his carnivalesque and riotously inventive Pricksongs & Descants Robert Coover remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast a...
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How Are You Going To Save Yourself
J M Holmes'A powerful rendering of contemporary masculinity in America.' TLS'A blistering debut . . . Hilarious and compelling, Holmes offers up a mirror to contemporary society . . . a comp...
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Lake Success
Gary Shteyngart'Gary Shteyngart hears America perfectly; its fatuity, its poignant lament, its boisterous selfloathing. Its heartbeat. Reading him sometimes makes me want to scream with recognit...
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Three Burials
Anders Lustgarten‘Extraordinary . . . both a madcap crime caper and a savage stateofthenation novel . . . Anders Lustgarten writes like a man possessed: bursting with energy’ The TimesAn electrifyi...
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A Country Road, A Tree
Jo BakerBY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LONGBOURNSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2017 'Skilful . . ....
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Number Ten
Sue TownsendNumber Ten is the brilliantly funny political satire by Sue Townsend, bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series'Wickedly entertaining. There is a gem on nearly every page. Nothi...
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Wallace StegnerBo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out hi...
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Let Me Try Again
Matthew DavisA Romantic Tragicomedy of Faith, Family, and Folly Ross, twentythree, isn’t nearly as clever as he thinks he is. His brilliant idea to break up with his girlfriend, Lora Liamant, i...
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Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi & Jonathan WrightWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONA SATIRICAL REIMAGINING OF MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN SET IN MODERNDAY BAGHDAD, BRILLIANTLY CAPTURING THE HORROR OF A CITY AT W...
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The Summer of Dead Toys
Antonio Hill & Laura McGlouglin'Evokes the master of Barcelonaset narrative, Carlos Ruiz Zafon' IndependentWhen the death of a young witness in a case of human trafficking and voodoo provokes the normally calm I...
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The Hare With Amber Eyes (Enhanced Edition)
Edmund de WaalThe definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller with gorgeous new photography of the celebrated netsuke collection, and sumptuous fullcolour images handpicked by...
