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161126b 2016 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250083258 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
813.54 |
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BEA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Beatty, Paul |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Sellout: a novel |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Macmillan Publisher, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2016 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York: |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
288 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. ; |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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INR |
| Price amount |
399.00 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside Community College, he spent his childhood as the subject in psychological studies, classic experiments revised to include a racially-charged twist. He also grew up believing this pioneering work might result in a memoir that would solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a shoot out with the police, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral and some maudlin what-ifs. Fuelled by this injustice and the general disrepair of his down-trodden hometown, he 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, our narrator initiates a course of action--one that includes reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school--destined to bring national attention. These outrageous events land him with a law suit heard by the Supreme Court, the latest in a series of cases revolving around the thorny issue of race in America. The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the most sacred tenets of the U.S. Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality--the black Chinese restaurant" |
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Satire |
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Fathers and sons |
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Race relations |
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Racism |
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African Americans -- Fiction |
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction |
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Racism -- Fiction |
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California -- Los Angeles |
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Race relations -- Fiction |
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Books |
