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100 1 $aBeatty, Paul,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe sellout /$cPaul Beatty.
250 $aFirst Picador edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPicador,$c2016.
264 4 $c©2015
300 $a288 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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520 $a"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. 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 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."--Publisher's description
520 $a"A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court"--$cProvided by publisher.
586 $aNational Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist, 2015
586 $aAmerican Library Association Notable Fiction, 2016
586 $aMan Booker Prize, 2016
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650 0 $aRacism$vFiction.
650 0 $aRace relations$vFiction.
651 0 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$vFiction.
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