The Sellout
The Sellout
A biting satire about a young mans isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beattys The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality: the black Chinese restaurant.Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "Id die in the same bedroom Id grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling thatve been there since the 68 quake."Raise
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- ΠΠΎΠ»-Π²ΠΎ ΡΡΡ. 291
- ΠΠ΅Ρ 270 Π³
- ΠΠΎΠ΄ ΠΈΠ·Π΄Π°Π½ΠΈΡ 2016
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Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "Id die in the same bedroom Id grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling thatve 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 fathers pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his familys financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All thats 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 from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the towns most famous resident - the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins - he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
- ΠΠ΅ΡΠ΅ΠΏΠ»ΡΡ ΠΡΠ³ΠΊΠΈΠΉ
- ΠΠΎΠ»-Π²ΠΎ ΡΡΡ. 291
- ΠΠ΅Ρ 270 Π³
- ΠΠΎΠ΄ ΠΈΠ·Π΄Π°Π½ΠΈΡ 2016
- ΠΠ·Π΄Π°ΡΠ΅Π»ΡΡΡΠ²ΠΎ
- ΠΠ²ΡΠΎΡ
- Π Π°Π·ΠΌΠ΅Ρ 2x13.8x20.7
- ID ΡΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ° 2639398
- ISBN 978-1-25-008325-8, 978-1-250-08325-8