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The sellout : a novel

Beatty, Paul (author.).

Summary: Born in the "Agrarian Ghetto" of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of "The Sellout" spent his childhood as the subject in racially charge psychological studies, and has since resigned himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians. Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their 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. Fueled 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 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 front of the Supreme Court.

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  • ISBN: 1250083257 (trade paperback)
  • ISBN: 9781250083258 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 288 pages ; 22 cm
    regular print
  • Edition: First Picador edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

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Awards Note:
Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize; National Book Critics Circle Award Winner; N.Y. Times Book Review 10 Best Books of the Year.
Subject: Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Race relations -- Fiction
African Americans -- Fiction
Farmers -- Fiction
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
Inner cities -- Fiction
Segregation -- Fiction
Slavery -- Fiction
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genre: General fiction
Satire.
Satirical literature.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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