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The sellout / Paul Beatty.
Record details
- ISBN: 0374260508 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780374260507 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780374260507 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0374260508 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781250083258
- ISBN: 1250083257
- Physical Description: 288 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical reference. |
| Summary, etc.: | "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. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Fathers and sons > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Satire. Political fiction. |
Available copies
- 24 of 29 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 29 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock Library - Ashford | F Bea (Text) | 33110139360513 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F BEATTY P (Text) | 32544072360653 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Bea (Text) | 33160125542137 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | F BEATTY (Text) | 34030130272435 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | F/BEATTY (Text) | 34029138099337 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC BEATTY (Text) | 36937002136845 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC BEATTY (Text) | 34014132499006 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Chester Public Library | BEA (Text) | 33210000344941 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | F Bea (Text) | 33180123726631 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
| Derby Neck Library | FIC BEA (Text) | 34046131365002 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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