03084nam a22003737a 4500 42732 BD-DhAAL 20240709103807.0 240626t2017 enk 000 1 eng d 9781786071460 (paperback) 1786071460 (paperback) 9781786070166 (eBook) DLC eng DLC rda BD-DhAAL pcc 813.54 23 Beatty, Paul. 56599 The sellout / Paul Beatty. First edition. London, England : Oneworld, 2017. 288 pages ; 22 cm. "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"-- AAL R K Corporation 42732 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2016. Fathers and sons Fiction. Race relations Fiction. FICTION / Literary. bisacsh FICTION / African American / General. bisacsh 56600 Satire. gsafd 5612 Ayesha Abed Library ddc BK 46497 46497 0 0 ddc 0 813_540000000000000_BEA 0 75695 BRACUL BRACUL AWC 2024-06-25 R K Corporation 1000.00 5 813.54 BEA 3010042732 2026-06-02 2026-05-19 2026-05-19 1 1000.00 2024-06-25 AWC