The sellout
Beatty, Paul2017
Book
Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of 'The Sellout' is raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believe his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes, he is shocked to discover, when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, that there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral. Fuelled 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 embarrassment.
Main title:
The sellout / Paul Beatty.
Author:
Beatty, Paul, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Oneworld, 2017.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.
Awards:
Man Booker Prize 2016
ISBN:
9781786071460 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6FICTION
Local class:
F
Language:
English
BRN:
2440858