03000nam a22003617a 450000100060000000300090000600500170001500800410003202000300007302000270010302000260013004000330015604200080018908200150019710000250021224500320023725000190026926400400028830000240032852017320035252001190208452600080220358600400221165000310225165000290228265000330231165000580234465500250240285200240242794200120245199900170246395201580248042732BD-DhAAL20240709103807.0240626t2017    enk           000 1 eng d  a9781786071460 (paperback)  a1786071460 (paperback)  a9781786070166 (eBook)  aDLCbengcDLCerdadBD-DhAAL  apcc00a813.542231 aBeatty, Paul.95659914aThe sellout /cPaul Beatty.  aFirst edition. 1aLondon, England :bOneworld,c2017.  a288 pages ;c22 cm.  a"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"A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court"--  aAAL  aMan Booker Prize for Fiction, 2016. 0aFathers and sonsvFiction. 0aRace relationsvFiction. 7aFICTION / Literary.2bisacsh 7aFICTION / African American / General.2bisacsh956600 7aSatire.2gsafd95612  aAyesha Abed Library  2ddccBK  c46497d46497  00102ddc4070aBRACULbBRACULcLSd2024-06-25eR K Corporationg1000.00l5o813.54 BEAp3010042732r2026-06-14s2026-05-19t1v1000.00w2024-06-25yAWC