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BLACK BUCK - MATEO ASKARIPOUR KARTONIERT (TB)

'Askaripour's satire of the tech industry . . . will appeal to fans of Paul Beatty's
Booker-prizewinning novel The Sellout and Jordan Peele's 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. It's 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 NYC's hottest tech startup 
results in Darren joining Rhett's 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 America's 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
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