Category:
Humor
Regular worth:
$13.99
Deal worth:
$1.99
Deal begins:
February 19, 2023
Deal ends:
February 19, 2023
A New York Times Bestseller
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 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, writer 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, writer of Heads of the Colored People
For followers of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street—a crackling, satirical debut novel a couple of younger man given a shot at stardom because the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly profitable startup the place nothing is because it appears.
There’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission.
An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone along with his mom, who needs nothing greater than to see him stay as much as his potential because the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content material working at Starbucks within the foyer of a Midtown workplace constructing, hanging out along with his girlfriend, Soraya, and consuming his mom’s home-cooked meals. All that adjustments when an opportunity encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun, NYC’s hottest tech startup, ends in an unique invitation for Darren to affix an elite gross sales group on the thirty-sixth flooring.
After enduring a “hell week” of coaching, Darren, the one Black particular person within the firm, reimagines himself as “Buck,” a ruthless salesman unrecognizable to his family and friends. But when issues flip tragic at residence and Buck feels he’s hit all-time low, he begins to hatch a plan to assist younger individuals of coloration infiltrate America’s gross sales pressure, setting off a series of occasions that perpetually adjustments the sport.
Black Buck is a hilarious, razor-sharp skewering of America’s workforce; it’s a propulsive, crackling debut that explores ambition and race, and makes means for a mandatory new imaginative and prescient of the American dream.
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