Tuff A Novel

"[I]n TUFF, Beatty offers up a sardonic portrait of how fate, and the selfish intervention of elders, can alter the course of a young person's life....Because Beatty stops short of a conclusive ending, TUFF is ultimately a portrait of a promisingly blank slate, someone whose decisions are influenced by random events and fleeting alliances, someone whose intellect might not be his most practical asset and certainly is not all he needs to turn his life around. Someone who, it turns out, is just like the rest of us."Beatty, Paul is the author of 'Tuff A Novel', published 2001 under ISBN 9780385721110 and ISBN 0385721110.