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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.
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The sellout, Paul Beatty
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2017
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- Titel
- The sellout
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Paul Beatty
- Uitgever
- Oneworld
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2017
- Formaat
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1786071460
- ISBN13
- 9781786071460
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Humor, Hedendaagse literatuur, Verenigde Staten, Amerikaanse Literatuur, Ras, Racisme, Satire, Identiteit, Afro-Amerikaanse Literatuur, Moraal, Gerechtigheid, Los Angeles, Slavernij, Booker Prize, Politieke correctheid
- Eerste editie
- 2015
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- The Sellout
- Beoordeling
- 3,85 van 5
- Aantekening
- 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.