The Resource The sellout, Paul Beatty
The sellout, Paul Beatty
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The item The sellout, Paul Beatty represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bryn Athyn College, Swedenborg Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
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- "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: "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 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. 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 further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident--the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins, he initiates the most extreme action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in front of the Supreme Court"--Jacket flap
- "A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court"--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 288 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250083258
- Label
- The sellout
- Title
- The sellout
- Statement of responsibility
- Paul Beatty
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "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: "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 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. 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 further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident--the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins, he initiates the most extreme action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in front of the Supreme Court"--Jacket flap
- "A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court"--Provided by publisher
- Awards note
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2015.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Beatty, Paul
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fathers and sons
- Race relations
- Fiction
- Satire
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- The sellout, Paul Beatty
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn887605559
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 288 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250083258
- Lccn
- 2014027451
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)887605559
- Label
- The sellout, Paul Beatty
- Link
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn887605559
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 288 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250083258
- Lccn
- 2014027451
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)887605559
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