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008 181225s2016 nyu g 000 0 eng d
020 $a9781250083258 (pbk.) :$cNT$560
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 4$aPS3552.E19$bS45
082 04$a813.54$222
100 1 $aBeatty, Paul,$eauthor.
245 14$aThe sellout /$cPaul Beatty.
250 $aFirst Picador edition.
260 $aNew York :$bPicador,$c2016.
300 $a288 p. ;$c21 cm.
520 $aBorn in the agrarian ghetto of Dickens -- on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles -- the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake. Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that hisfather's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident -- the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins -- he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
650 0$aFathers and sons$vFiction.
650 0$aRacism$vFiction.
650 0$aRace relations$vFiction.
651 0$aLos Angeles (Calif.)$vFiction.