{"product_id":"9781250808240","title":"Sellout","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook Title: Sellout \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781250808240 \u003cbr\u003eBy Author(s):PB \u003cbr\u003eBy Publisher: \u003cbr\u003eFormat:BEATTY PAUL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed one of the best books of 2015 by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eA biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sellout\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eshowcases 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eBorn in the \"agrarian ghetto\" of Dickens--on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles--the narrator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eFuelled 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49294292156639,"sku":null,"price":13.8,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0410\/9529\/9228\/files\/81ZEQW1cl1S._SY522.jpg?v=1779426639","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmarket.com.sg\/products\/9781250808240","provider":"BookMarket","version":"1.0","type":"link"}