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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Go buy it now, so he can keep publishing his books,
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This review is from: Tuff (Hardcover)
Paul Beatty's first collection of poetry (Big Bank take Little Bank)is out of print, and god forbid any other of his great books should suffer the same fate. I just finished Tuff this morning and it's just amazing. I haven't been able to get through much fiction by men lately; they are either stupid or apolgetic in this super loser way. Both Beatty and Tuffy, his latest pro/antagonist show such honest bravado, if there is such a thing, that it makes this a rare joy to read. Tuff is worth two times the hardcover price, just for the main character's vision on underground and commercial movie making. I loved it and White boy Shuffle. Go buy it now; don't be a stupid motherfucker.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you ask me, Beatty is batting 1.000,
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This review is from: Tuff (Hardcover)
Evidence of a sophomore slump is nowhere to be found with TUFF. In my view, Paul Beatty has climbed a rung or two beyond THE WHITE BOY SHUFFLE. The corpulent street-wise protagonist of TUFF, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay, is introduced as a young man without an obvious plan getting by with his wife and son through wits, brawn and an affinity for art house cinema. Immediately after a narrow escape from the hereafter while earning his keep as enforcer for drug dealers, Tuff surmises he needs an alternative future strategy. By default and convenience rather than commitment or geniune desire, he decides to run for City Council. Gradually, in spite of all of the numerable objections he is able to muster, you sense slowly but steadily Tuff is beginning to care about his environs. As events unfold, you meet his eclectic assortment of friends, relatives and external influences, most prominently the multiply-challenged best friend Fariq, a hustler who under different circumstances would prosper downtown on Wall Street; Tuff's forever radical father; the opportunistic but incongruent "Big Brother" Rabbi Spencer Thockmorton; and surrogate mother/mentor Mrs. Nomuri. At times farcical, primarily serious, and wholly relevant to any inner city - this time it happens to be NYC - TUFF is a "The Candidate" with a spin. Beatty clearly understands sometimes less is indeed more, so the similes and metaphors so prominently dispensed in SHUFFLE are less evident, the erudite references are likewise diminished. However, from beginning to denouement the story has greater cohesion than his first novel with no loss of witticisms, sarcasm, cynicism or any shortage of astute observations. Whereas SHUFFLE was a punch to the gut, TUFF is more of a tap on the chin.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Quick witted, Funny, Honest Look at Life in New York,
By Booklover "TruGift" (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tuff (Hardcover)
Of course truth is stranger than fiction and with Tuff it's hard to distinguish between the two. The story is outlandish enough to be true with Winston waking up from a shoot out thankful to still be alive with no wounds and a new gun to boot. Walking in Winston's shoes, traipsing the streets of Brooklyn, Harlem and everything in between--He's an overweight lover, husband and father looking to survive the dense hole called life. By the end of the book I was just glad I made it out alive.
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