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Title: THE SELLOUT
Volume: 2016
By: Paul Beatty
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1786070170
ISBN 13: 9781786070173
Publisher: ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS
Pub. date: 24 March, 2016
Description: A biting American satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court
Synopsis: Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believe his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes, he is shocked to discover, when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, that there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through 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 embarrassment. Enlisting the help of Dickens' most famous resident - Hominy Jenkins - he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school. What follows is a remarkable journey that challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement and the holy grail of racial equality - the black Chinese restaurant.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Prizes: Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2016.
Returns: Returnable
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