Black buck, by Mateo Askaripour
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Black buck, by Mateo Askaripour
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Black buck
Oclc number
1238131880
Responsibility statement
by Mateo Askaripour
Series statement
Thorndike press large print Black voices
Summary
"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"--, Provided by publisher
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- Vendeurs -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Sales personnel
- Race relations
- Jeunes hommes noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Satirical literature
- Fictional Work
- Businesspeople
- African American young men -- Fiction
- Novels
- Relations raciales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- African American young men
- Noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Success in business
- Livres en gros caractères
- Urban fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Large type books
- African American men
- Race relations -- Fiction
- African Americans
- Romans
- Sales personnel -- Fiction
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- Vendeurs -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Sales personnel
- Race relations
- Jeunes hommes noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Satirical literature
- Fictional Work
- Businesspeople
- African American young men -- Fiction
- Novels
- Relations raciales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- African American young men
- Noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Success in business
- Livres en gros caractères
- Urban fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Large type books
- African American men
- Race relations -- Fiction
- African Americans
- Romans
- Sales personnel -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1
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