The sellout / Paul Beatty.
Publication details: London : Oneworld, 2017.Description: 288 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781786071460 (pbk.) :
- 23
- PS3552.E19 S45 2017
- Man Booker Prize 2016
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Originally published: 2016.
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.
Man Booker Prize 2016
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