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The sellout / Paul Beatty.

The sellout / Paul Beatty.
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ISBN 9781786070173 (paperback)
1786070170 (paperback)
Name Beatty, Paul author.
Title The sellout / Paul Beatty.
Published London : Oneworld Publications, 2016.
©2015
Description 288 pages ; 20 cm.
Summary Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believe his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes, he is shocked to discover, when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, that there never was a memoir. All that's left is a 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: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from embarrassment. Enlisting the help of Dickens' 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.
Subjects Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Race relations -- Fiction
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genre Satire
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