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The Sellout = a novel /

Beatty, Paul.

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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Sellout / Paul Beatty.
Reminder of title:	a novel /
Author:	Beatty, Paul.
Published:	New York :Picador, : 2016.,
Description:	288 p. ;21 cm.
Subject:	Fathers and sons - Fiction. -
Subject:	Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction. -
ISBN:	9781250083258

The Sellout = a novel /
Beatty, Paul.

The Sellout a novel /Paul Beatty. - 1st Picador ed. - New York :Picador,2016. - 288 p. ;21 cm.

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality -- the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the agrarian ghetto of Dickens -- on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles -- the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake. Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fuelled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident -- the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins -- he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court. -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9781250083258US16.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

528065
Fathers and sons
--Fiction.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

525350
Los Angeles (Calif.)
--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3552.E19 / .S45 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54

The Sellout = a novel /
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