The sellout: a novel

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A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme CourtBorn 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 the '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their 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 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 front of 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 U.S. Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant.

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Autor: Paul Beatty

Autor

PAUL BEATTY

Paul Beatty (Los Angeles – EUA, 1962) é escritor, poeta e professor. Publica seus poemas desde 1991 e chegou a vencer competições de Poetry Slam. Em 2016, tornou-se o primeiro autor americano a ganhar o Man Booker Prize com o romance O vendido (2017), em que trata com humor cáustico do racismo no Estados Unidos. Organizou Hokum (2006), uma antologia do humor afro-americano. Vive em Nova York, onde leciona escrita criativa na Universidade de Columbia.