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The Sellout is a 2015 novel by Paul Beatty published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the UK by Oneworld Publications in 2016. The novel takes place in and around Los Angeles, California, and muses about the state of racial relations in the U.S. today.
Mar 3, 2015 · The Sellout is a comic novel about a young man who tries to reinstitute slavery and segregation in his hometown of Dickens, California, and ends up in the Supreme Court. It is a biting critique of race, justice, and American society, written by the first African-American winner of the Man Booker Prize.
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May 24, 2016 · 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.
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Mar 3, 2015 · Named one of the best books of by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal. A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends...
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Feb 26, 2015 · Most basically “The Sellout” is about a young black man born in the “agrarian ghetto” of Dickens, a neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, who becomes an artisanal...
Paul Beatty’s biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court. The son of a pioneering sociologist believes that selling his father’s controversial memoir will solve the family’s financial woes.
