The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2016
A biting American satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court.
Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by his single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes, he is shocked to discover, after his father is killed in a police shoot-out, that there never was a memoir. In fact, all that's left is the 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: his hometown Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's 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.
About the Author
Paul Beatty is the author of three novels - Slumberland, Tuff and The White Boy Shuffle - and two books of poetry: Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce. He is the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African- American Humor. He lives in New York City.
Format: Paperback | 304 pages
Dimensions (cm): 2.3 x 12.9 x 19.7 | 290g
Publication Date: 15 May 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN10: 1786071460
ISBN13: 9781786071460
Conditions: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor, but obvious, damage to the cover including minor scuff marks and creasing, and minor smudges of discolouring and dirt, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. Still in excellent condition between the covers.