Tuff : From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sellout

‘Beatty insistently finds poetry in the projects, dignity on the street.’ Guardian‘Beatty’s blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence [is] transfixing’ New York Times‘The writing here is seamless and teeming with momentum’ New York Times Book ReviewWinston ‘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 Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife he married over the phone whilst in jail.When the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council, so begins a zany, riotous concoction of nonstop hip-hop chatter and brilliant mainstream social satire, as the indomitable Beatty again demonstrates why he is hailed as one of the shrewdest cultural commentators and hilarious cutups of his generation.