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200 1. $a The sellout $b Texte imprimé $f Paul Beatty
205 .. $a First edition
210 .. $a New York $c Farrar, Straus and Giroux $d 2015
215 .. $a 288 pages $d 22 cm
300 .. $a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2015
330 .. $a "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. Fueled 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, the latest in a series of cases revolving around the thorny issue of
race in America. The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges
the most 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" ; "A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race
trial that sends him to the Supreme Court"
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