Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour (English) Paperback Book

Description: Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour A New York Times bestseller, Black Buck is 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Askaripours satire of the tech industry . . . will appeal to fans of Paul Beattys Booker-prizewinning novel "The Sellout" and Jordan Peeles film "Get Out" The EconomistMesmerizing. . . a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy. Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground RailroadI love this so much. Its effortlessly funny, smart and satisfyingly self-aware Candice Carty-Williams, author of QueenieMeet Darren. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old living with his mother and working at Starbucks. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of NYCs hottest tech startup, results in Darren joining Rhetts elite sales team.On his first day Darren realizes he is the only Black person in the company, and when things start to get strange, he reimagines himself as Buck, a ruthless salesman, unrecognizable to his friends and family. Money, partying, and fame soon follow Buck, and wherever he goes more is never enough. But when tragedy strikes at home, Buck begins to hatch a plan to help young people of colour infiltrate Americas sales force, setting off a chain of events that forever changes the game.An earnest work of satire, Black Buck is a hilarious, razor-sharp skewering of office culture; a propulsive, crackling debut that explores ambition and race, and makes way for a necessary new vision of the American dream.A crackling satire of corporate America GuardianA wonderful, riotous romp. A razor sharp, humorous examination of American workplace dynamics in the tech industry Irenosen Okojie Author Biography MATEO ASKARIPOUR was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, Catapult, The Rumpus, Medium, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, and his favorite pastimes include bingeing music videos and movie trailers, drinking yerba mate, and dancing in his apartment. Black Buck is his debut novel. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @AskMateo. Long Description Askaripours satire of the tech industry . . . will appeal to fans of Paul Beattys Booker-prizewinning novel "The Sellout" and Jordan Peeles film "Get Out" The Economist Mesmerizing. . . a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy. Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad I love this so much. Its effortlessly funny, smart and satisfyingly self-aware Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie Meet Darren. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old living with his mother and working at Starbucks. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of NYCs hottest tech startup, results in Darren joining Rhetts elite sales team.On his first day Darren realizes he is the only Black person in the company, and when things start to get strange, he reimagines himself as Buck, a ruthless salesman, unrecognizable to his friends and family. Money, partying, and fame soon follow Buck, and wherever he goes more is never enough. But when tragedy strikes at home, Buck begins to hatch a plan to help young people of colour infiltrate Americas sales force, setting off a chain of events that forever changes the game.An earnest work of satire, Black Buck is a hilarious, razor-sharp skewering of office culture; a propulsive, crackling debut that explores ambition and race, and makes way for a necessary new vision of the American dream.A crackling satire of corporate America Guardian A wonderful, riotous romp. A razor sharp, humorous examination of American workplace dynamics in the tech industry Irenosen Okojie Review Quote Mateo 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 Underground Railroad 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 Ive ever read, this novel is both balm and bomb. - Nafissa Thompson-Spires, author of Heads of the Colored People An irresistible comic novel about the tenacity of racism in corporate America . . . [Black Buck] is alternately sly and sweet, a work of cultural criticism that laments and celebrates the power of money. - Washington Post Darkly comic . . . The message at the heart of this novel [is] very American, that the power is in the pitch . . . Black Buck is not unlike The Great Gatsby, in its own way. - NPR [A] razor-sharp send-up of ladder-climbing office culture, and all the systemic and individual racism it perpetuates - Vanity Fair Rhapsodic and incisive, Black Buck is a journey into a post-racial dystopia born of tech-fueled greed and racial ignorance. - WIRED This quick-witted, trenchant debut novel starts like a superhero origin story . . . What follows is a harrowing tale that operates at the fraught intersection of capitalism, race, and class. - Vulture Askaripour closes the deal on the first page - Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad Promotional "Headline" A New York Times bestseller, Black Buck is 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. Details ISBN1529376742 Author Mateo Askaripour Year 2022 ISBN-10 1529376742 ISBN-13 9781529376746 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-01-06 UK Release Date 2022-01-06 Pages 400 Imprint John Murray Publishers Ltd Country of Publication United Kingdom Publisher John Murray Press Language English DEWEY 813.6 Audience General NZ Release Date 2022-04-11 AU Release Date 2022-04-11 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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