The Sellout (Paperback) by Paul Beatty
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's 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: "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 '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 from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's 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. -- Provided by publisher. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br> <p><b>Winner of the Man Booker Prize</b> <p/>Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction <p/>Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature<br></b><br><b><i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</b> <p/><b><i>Los Angeles Times</i> Bestseller <p/>Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by </b><b><i>The</i> <i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><b><br>Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>Newsweek</i>, <i>The Denver Post</i>, <i>BuzzFeed</i>, <i>Kirkus Reviews</i>, and <i>Publishers Weekly<br></i></b><br><b>Named a Must-Read by <i>Flavorwire</i> and <i>New York</i> Magazine's Vulture Blog <p/></b>A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's <i>The Sellout </i>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. <p/>Born in the agrarian ghetto of Dickens--on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles--the narrator of <i>The Sellout</i> resigns 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 '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. <p/>Fueled 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 town's 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.</p> <p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br> <p>"The first 100 pages of [Paul Beatty's] new novel, <i>The Sellout</i>, are the most caustic and the most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read in at least a decade. I gave up underlining the killer bits because my arm began to hurt . . . [They] read like the most concussive monologues and interviews of Chris Rock, Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle wrapped in a satirical yet surprisingly delicate literary and historical sensibility . . . The jokes come up through your spleen . . . The riffs don't stop coming in this landmark and deeply aware comic novel . . . [It] puts you down in a place that's miles from where it picked you up." --Dwight Garner, <i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"[<i>The Sellout</i>] is among the most important and difficult American novels written in the 21st century . . . It is a bruising novel that readers will likely never forget." --Kiese Laymon, <i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"Swiftian satire of the highest order . . . Giddy, scathing and dazzling." --Sam Sacks, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> <p/>"<i>The Sellout </i>isn't just one of the most hilarious American novels in years, it also might be the first truly great satirical novel of the century . . . [It] is a comic masterpiece, but it's much more than just that-it's one of the smartest and most honest reflections on race and identity in America in a very long time." --Michael Schaub, <i>NPR.org</i> <p/>"Beatty, author of the deservedly highly praised <i>The White Boy Shuffle </i>(1996), here outdoes himself and possibly everybody else in a send-up of race, popular culture, and politics in today's America . . . Beatty hits on all cylinders in a darkly funny, dead-on-target, elegantly written satire . . . [<i>The Sellout</i>] is frequently laugh-out-loud funny and, in the way of the great ones, profoundly thought provoking. A major contribution." --<i>Mark Levin, Booklist (starred review)</i> <p/>"<i>The Sellout</i> is brilliant. Amazing. Like demented angels wrote it." --<i>Sarah Silverman</i> <p/>"I am glad that I read this insane book alone, with no one watching, because I fell apart with envy, hysterics, and flat-out awe. Is there a more fiercely brilliant and scathingly hilarious American novelist than Paul Beatty?" --<i>Ben Marcus</i> <p/>"Paul Beatty has always been one of smartest, funniest, gutsiest writers in America, but <i>The Sellout </i>sets a new standard. It's a spectacular explosion of comic daring, cultural provocation, brilliant, hilarious prose, and genuine heart." --<i>Sam Lipsyte</i></p> <p/><br></br><p><b> About The Author </b></p></br></br> <b>Paul Beatty</b> is the author of three novels--<i>Slumberland</i>, <i> Tuff</i>, and <i>The</i> <i>White Boy Shuffle</i>--and two books of poetry: <i>Big Bank Take Little Bank</i> and <i>Joker, Joker, Deuce</i>. He is the editor of <i>Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor</i>. In 2016, he became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize. He lives in New York City.
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