TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beatty,Paul
TI  - The sellout
SN  - 9781250083258 (pbk.) :
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador
KW  - United States
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - General
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015
N2  - Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of 'The Sellout' is raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believe his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes, he is shocked to discover, when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, that there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through 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 embarrassment
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