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1786070154 
The sellout / Paul Beatty.
Publication year: 2016
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Classification: Fiction
Publisher: Oneworld, 2016.
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781786070159 (pbk.) :
Notes: 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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288 pages ; 22 cm
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Stumbled across this book. A good read. Would definitely recommend this one.
03/05/17
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