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Black buck / Mateo Askaripour.

Askaripour, Mateo, (author.).

Summary:
"A crackling, satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime-a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems"-- Provided by publisher.
For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street - a blazing, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cultlike, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems. 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. -- From dust jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780358380887
  • ISBN: 035838088X
  • Physical Description: xi, 388 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Read with Jenna" -- cover
Subject: African American young men > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Sales personnel > Fiction.
Success in business > Fiction.
> Fiction.
Genre: Satirical literature.
Urban fiction.

Available copies

  • 37 of 40 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 40 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Abington Community Library FICTION ASKARIP (Text) 50687011760413 Adult Fiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library FICTION ASKARIP (Text) 50686015669919 Adult Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F ASK (Text) 33240004878453 Adult Fiction Available -
Bangor Public Library F ASK (Text) 75011000347036 Adult Fiction Available -
Boyertown Community Library ASK (Text) 33249024145074 Fiction Available -
Cambria County Library FICTION Ask (Text) 85131001752659 CACM Fiction Available -
Carbondale Public Library FICTION ASKARIP (Text) 50688010783000 Adult Fiction Available -
Emmaus Public Library FIC ASKARIPOUR, MATEO (Text) 36446002029760 Adult Fiction Available -
Fleetwood Area Public Library ASK (Text) 33249023143807 Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library FIC ASKARIPOUR MATEO (Text) 35740635693781 Fiction Available -


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