Book : Black Buck - Askaripour, Mateo

-Titulo Original : Black Buck

-Fabricante :

Mariner Books

-Descripcion Original:

A New York Times Bestseller A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Longlisted for the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize“Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy.”-Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel Boys “A hilarious, gleaming satire as radiant as its author. Askaripour has announced himself as a major talent of the school of Ralph Ellison, Paul Beatty, Fran Ross, and Ishmael Reed. Full of quick pacing, frenetic energy, absurd-yet spot on-twists and turns, and some of the funniest similes I’ve ever read, this novel is both balm and bomb.” -Nafissa Thompson-Spires, author of Heads of the Colored People For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street-a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems.There’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother’s home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun, NYC’s hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor. After enduring a “hell week” of training, Darren, the only Black person in the company, reimagines himself as “Buck,” a ruthless salesman unrecognizable to his friends and family. But when things turn tragic at home and Buck feels he’s hit rock bottom, he begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America’s sales force, setting off a chain of events that forever changes the game.Black Buck is a hilarious, razor-sharp skewering of America’s workforce; it is a propulsive, crackling debut that explores ambition and race, and makes way for a necessary new vision of the American dream. Review An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick Long-listed for the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize Long-listed for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize An Indie Next Pick Apple’s Best of January Amazon’s Spotlight Best Pick of the Month One of Barnes & Noble Reads “Most Anticipated for January” One of Entertainment Weekly’s “Best Books to Keep You Warm this January” One of Washington Post’s “10 Books to Read in January” One of NBC News 10 of the Best Fiction Books by Black Authors in 2021 One of Fortune’s “Best Books for January” One of Shondalands Best Five Books for January One of Essences 21 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2021 One of WIREDs Picks for the 10 Books You Have to Read This Winter One of O, the Oprah Magazines 33 of the Best Beach Reads to Help You Escape One of Vultures 46 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2021 One of Elles 55 Best Books to Read in 2021 One of Marie Claire’s “29 Best New 2021 Books” One of Vanity Fair’s “Books to Get You Through Winter” One of E! Onlines 17 Books to Add to Your Reading List in January One of The Roots PageTurners: Were in for a Hell of Year One of AV Clubs 5 New Books to Read in January One of Marie Claires 35 Must-Read 2021 Book Releases by Black Authors One of Cosmopolitan’s “Best New Books 2021” One of the New York Posts Best New Books to Read One of PopSugar’s “Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2021” One of Literary Hubs Most Anticipated Books of the Year One of Parades Best New Books to Read this Winter One of Thrillists 30 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2021 One of Readers Digests 25 Best Books by Black Authors Youll Want to Know