The Sellout
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2016
(Sprache: Englisch)
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....
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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.
Enlisting the help of Dickens' most famous resident - Hominy Jenkins - he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school. What follows is a remarkable journey that challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement and the holy grail of racial equality - the black Chinese restaurant.
Enlisting the help of Dickens' most famous resident - Hominy Jenkins - he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school. What follows is a remarkable journey that challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement and the holy grail of racial equality - the black Chinese restaurant.
Autoren-Porträt von Paul Beatty
Paul Beatty, geboren 1962 in Los Angeles, lebt in New York City. Er war der erste Preisträger des Grand Poetry Slam des Nuyorican Poets Café.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Beatty
- 2016, 304 Seiten, Masse: 19,6 x 13,1 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Oneworld Publications
- ISBN-10: 1786070170
- ISBN-13: 9781786070173
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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