The Sellout av Paul Beatty

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<p><b>Winner of the Man Booker Prize</b><b><br>Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction</b><b><br>Named one of the best books of by <i>The</i><i>New York Times Book Review </i>and the <i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><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 <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.<br><br>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 controver