The Sellout (2016 Man Booker Prize Winner)
by Beatty, Paul
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Oneworld Publications, London, 2017. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. First impression. Size: Small Octavo. 291 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens, on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians. 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 his father'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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; United States; Modern; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781786071460. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8736. . 9781786071460
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On Jan 3 2018, a reader said:
The Sellout is the fourth novel by award-winning American author, Paul Beatty. It won the Man Booker Prize in 2016. Our narrator is the son of a psychologist by the name of Mee (who has dropped the second "e"). Until his untimely and unfortunate death at the hands of the Los Angeles Police, his father was known as the Nigger Whisper for his ability to talk down coloured folk attempting suicide, a role that has been thrust upon the narrator by default.
Since his father's death, he manages their farm in a suburban area of LA once known as the City of Dickens. A talented farmer, he grows, among other cash crops, square watermelons and pot, and his uniquely delicious produce is very popular locally. In the prologue, we find him summoned to appear before the Supreme Court of USA on charges of racial segregation and slavery.
Although our narrator's name is never mentioned, he is referred to by one character as The Sellout, and bears the nickname Bonbon from his performance in a school spelling bee. Beatty gives the reader a cast of quirky characters that includes a former child-actor, the Assistant Principal of the Chaff Middle School, a female bus driver and a has-been TV personality who rewrites classic texts into blackly correct books.
A former city is re-established via Freeway signs and a three-inch-wide white painted border. Meetings of the Dum Dum Donuts Intellectuals are the forum for black ideas and our protagonist employs a sort of reverse psychology that ends up in a resegregation push. He also provides novel take on blackface entertainment.
One World have produced editions of Beatty's four novel with themed covers and this one has a lawn jockey with a gas lamp on the cover, the significance of which becomes clear in the text. This satire has been described as brilliant, outrageous, demented, hilarious and profound, all succinct and accurate descriptors. Very entertaining.
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- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8736
- Title
- The Sellout (2016 Man Booker Prize Winner)
- Author
- Beatty, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1786071460
- ISBN 13
- 9781786071460
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Contemporary Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Social Discrimination, Human Rights, man booker prize winner Fiction; United States; Modern; EAN: 9781786071460 Beatty, Paul The Sellout (2016 Man Booker Prize Winner)
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