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The sellout : a novel
- Title
- The sellout : a novel / Paul Beatty.
- Author
- Beatty, Paul.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 15-5234 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 15-508 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- 288 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside Community College, he spent his childhood as the subject in psychological studies, classic experiments revised to include a racially-charged twist. He also grew up believing this pioneering work might result in a memoir that would solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a shoot out with the police, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral and some maudlin what-ifs. Fuelled by this injustice and the general disrepair of his down-trodden hometown, he 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, our narrator initiates a course of action--one that includes reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school--destined to bring national attention. These outrageous events land him with a law suit heard by the Supreme Court, the latest in a series of cases revolving around the thorny issue of race in America. The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the most sacred tenets of the U.S. Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality--the black Chinese restaurant"--
- "A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Satire.
- Call Number
- Sc D 15-508
- ISBN
- 9780374260507
- 0374260508
- LCCN
- 2014027451
- OCLC
- 2014027451
- Author
- Beatty, Paul.
- Title
- The sellout : a novel / Paul Beatty.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 15-508JFD 15-5234