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Bibliographic Information
- Title
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The sellout
First Picador edition.
- Author
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Beatty, Paul.
- Publisher:
- Picador,
- Pub date:
- 2016.
- Pages:
- 288 pages ;
- ISBN:
- 9781250083258
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult fiction shelves.
1 copy total in all locations.
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Holdings
FIC BEA
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Trade Paperback (larger paperback)
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Adult fiction shelves
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The sellout
First Picador edition.
Beatty, Paul.
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The sellout
First Picador edition.
Beatty, Paul.
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Personal Author:
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Beatty, Paul.
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Title:
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The sellout / Paul Beatty.
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Edition:
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First Picador edition.
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Physical description:
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288 pages ; 21 cm
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Summary:
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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.
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Subject term:
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Fathers and sons--Fiction.
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Subject term:
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Racism--Fiction.
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Subject term:
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Race relations--Fiction.
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Subject term:
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Satire.
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Geographic term:
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Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.