Black Buck: A Novel
(Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Mateo Askaripour. (2021). Black Buck: A Novel. HarperCollins.

Mateo Askaripour. 2021. Black Buck: A Novel. HarperCollins.

Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2021.

Mateo Askaripour. Black Buck: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2021.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{87E64DF4-2385-4DA4-AF32-1197AFCD2606}IMG100.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{87E64DF4-2385-4DA4-AF32-1197AFCD2606}IMG200.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/{87E64DF4-2385-4DA4-AF32-1197AFCD2606}IMG150.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/{87E64DF4-2385-4DA4-AF32-1197AFCD2606}IMG400.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780358380641
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ASIN
        • value: B086YGKCTL
   • name: Kindle Book
   • id: ebook-kindle
3. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780358380641
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • id: ebook-overdrive

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9780358380887

mediaType

eBook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Mateo Askaripour

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Black Buck

dateAdded

2021-01-13T19:59:00Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=426&titleID=5402715
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Wake County Public Libraries (NC)
     • id: 1893

sortTitle

Black Buck A Novel

crossRefId

5402715

subtitle

A Novel

id

87E64DF4-2385-4DA4-AF32-1197AFCD2606

starRating

3.5

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • fileName: BlackBuck_5402715
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ASIN
        • value: B086YGKCTL
   • name: Kindle Book
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-kindle
   • onSaleDate: 1/5/2021
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=87e64df4-2385-4da4-af32-1197afcd2606&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • fileName: BlackBuck_9780358380641_5402715
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780358380641
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 1/5/2021
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=87e64df4-2385-4da4-af32-1197afcd2606&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Askaripour, Mateo
   • bioText: MATEO ASKARIPOUR's work aims to empower people of color to seize opportunities for advancement, no matter the obstacle. He was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's "10 rising stars to make waves in 2021," a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. His debut novel BLACK BUCK was an instant New York Times bestseller and a Read With Jenna Today Show book club pick. He lives in Brooklyn. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter at @AskMateo.
     
   • name: Mateo Askaripour

imprint

Mariner Books

publishDate

2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Black Buck

fullDescription

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, author 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, author of Heads of the Colored People
For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street—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.
There's nothing like a Black salesman on a mission.
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.

popularity

1620

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/L1BLQAAAA2a/products/87e64df4-2385-4da4-af32-1197afcd2606/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
• shareInLibby:
  • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=W3BSAAWUhr4
  • type: text/HTML

id

87e64df4-2385-4da4-af32-1197afcd2606

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{87E64DF4-2385-4DA4-AF32-1197AFCD2606}IMG100.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{87E64DF4-2385-4DA4-AF32-1197AFCD2606}IMG200.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/{87E64DF4-2385-4DA4-AF32-1197AFCD2606}IMG150.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/{87E64DF4-2385-4DA4-AF32-1197AFCD2606}IMG400.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Fiction
2. • value: African American Fiction
3. • value: Literature
4. • value: Humor (Fiction)

publishDateText

01/05/2021

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9780358380887

mediaType

eBook

shortDescription

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, author 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, author of Heads of the Colored People
For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street—a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the...

accessibilityStatements

1. • additionalInformation:
   • navigation:
     1. StructuredNavigation
   • hazards:
   • waysOfReading:
     1. NoInfoForModifiableDisplay
     2. SomeNonVisualReadingSupport
   • summaryStatement: The publication may be missing some alternative text and ARIA labels. The publication otherwise meets WCAG 2.0 Level A.
   • conformance:
     1. NoInfoForStandards
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • richContent:
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
   • legalConsiderations:

sortTitle

Black Buck A Novel

crossRefId

5402715

classifications

subtitle

A Novel

publisher

HarperCollins

bisacCodes

1. • code: FIC049070
   • description: Fiction / African American & Black / Urban & Street Lit
2. • code: FIC052000
   • description: Fiction / Satire
3. • code: FIC060000
   • description: FICTION / Humorous / Dark Humor