Tuff by Paul Beatty

307 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

fiction literary politics race funny reflective medium-paced
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Winston "Tuffy" Foshay is a 19-year-old, 24-stone "player-king" to a hapless gang in Spanish Harlem, a denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs. His best friend is a disabled Muslim man who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asia...

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