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Mar 2, 2015 · The Sellout 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, written by an...
Mar 3, 2015 · The Sellout. Paul Beatty. 3.75. 69,196 ratings7,453 reviews. 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.
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Feb 26, 2015 · Mr. Beatty’s novel is told from the view of a young isolated black man born on outskirts of Los Angeles who lands before the Supreme Court in a race trial appeal.
Apr 9, 2015 · April 9, 2015. African-American satire has been alive at least since the first black slave made fun of her putative masters and their manners. In that moment of mockery, the cakewalk was born, but...
Mar 3, 2015 · The Sellout by Paul Beatty has an overall rating of Rave based on 12 book reviews.
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Nov 10, 2016 · The protagonist and narrator of Paul Beatty's Man Booker Prize-winning The Sellout welcomes your discomfiture: indeed it is an essential element of this rambling, rhetorical reductio ad absurdum ...
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The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. 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.
