The sellout / Paul Beatty.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250083258
- ISBN: 1250083257
- Physical Description: 288 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Picador edition.
- Publisher: New York : Picador, 2016.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "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..."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | African Americans > Fiction. Fathers and sons > Fiction. Racism > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction. Satire. |
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Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | FIC BEATTY (Text) | 34000081423865 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/17/2024 |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | FIC BEA (Text) | 34055137537332 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Killingly Library | F Bea (Text) | 34040141943932 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Minor Memorial Library - Roxbury | FIC BEA (Text) | 33630131500915 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
North Branch - Bridgeport | FIC BEATTY (Text) | 34000081423873 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Putnam Public Library | BEATTY (Text) | 33610137940562 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Scoville Memorial Library - Salisbury | FIC BEATTY (Text)
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Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | S FIC BEATTY, P (Text) | 34005107024456 | Storage | Available | - |
Thomaston Public Library | FIC BEATTY (Text) | 34020137788046 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Woodbury Public Library | FIC BEATTY (Text) | 34018139352167 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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The Sellout : A Novel
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Author Notes
The Sellout : A Novel
Paul Beatty was born in Los Angeles, California in 1962. He received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA in psychology from Boston University. In 1990, he became the first Grand Poetry Slam Champion of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. One of the prizes for winning was the book deal, which resulted in his first collection of poetry, Big Bank Takes Little Bank. His novels include The White Boy Shuffle, Tuff, and Slumberland. The Sellout won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. (Bowker Author Biography)