Sellout A Novel

Name: Sellout A Novel
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ISBN: 9781250083258

ISBN-10: 1250083257

ISBN-13: 9781250083258

Edition: 2016

Authors: Paul Beatty, Elizabeth Bruce

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A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's "The Sellout "showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality--the black Chinese restaurant.Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles--the narrator of "The Sellout" resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake."…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 3/1/2016
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.31" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English