The Sellout
de Paul Beatty
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- Ver descripción
- ISBN 10
- 1786070170
- ISBN 13
- 9781786070173
- Librería
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Morrinsville, New Zealand
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Sobre este artículo
Published by Oneworld Publications, 2016. Paperback. Condition: Good Plus. Light reading wear. Very clean interior. .
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El Jan 3 2018, un lector dijo:
The Sellout is the fourth novel by award-winning American author, Paul Beatty. It won the Man Booker Prize in 2016. Our narrator is the son of a psychologist by the name of Mee (who has dropped the second "e"). Until his untimely and unfortunate death at the hands of the Los Angeles Police, his father was known as the Nigger Whisper for his ability to talk down coloured folk attempting suicide, a role that has been thrust upon the narrator by default.
Since his father's death, he manages their farm in a suburban area of LA once known as the City of Dickens. A talented farmer, he grows, among other cash crops, square watermelons and pot, and his uniquely delicious produce is very popular locally. In the prologue, we find him summoned to appear before the Supreme Court of USA on charges of racial segregation and slavery.
Although our narrator's name is never mentioned, he is referred to by one character as The Sellout, and bears the nickname Bonbon from his performance in a school spelling bee. Beatty gives the reader a cast of quirky characters that includes a former child-actor, the Assistant Principal of the Chaff Middle School, a female bus driver and a has-been TV personality who rewrites classic texts into blackly correct books.
A former city is re-established via Freeway signs and a three-inch-wide white painted border. Meetings of the Dum Dum Donuts Intellectuals are the forum for black ideas and our protagonist employs a sort of reverse psychology that ends up in a resegregation push. He also provides novel take on blackface entertainment.
One World have produced editions of Beatty's four novel with themed covers and this one has a lawn jockey with a gas lamp on the cover, the significance of which becomes clear in the text. This satire has been described as brilliant, outrageous, demented, hilarious and profound, all succinct and accurate descriptors. Very entertaining.
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- Librería
- Samwise Books (NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 11111122564
- Título
- The Sellout
- Autor
- Paul Beatty
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1786070170
- ISBN 13
- 9781786070173
- Editorial
- Pan Macmillan India
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2016
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