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El Vendido
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. 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. Fueled 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Malpaso Editorial
- Publish Date: Aug 1st, 2018
- Pages: 368
- Language: Spanish
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.70in - 0.90in - 1.19lb
- EAN: 9788416665693
- Categories: • Literary• African American - General• Humorous - General
About the Author
Paul Beatty is an American poet, novelist, and a professor of creative writing at Columbia University. His books include Tuff, Slumberland, and El vendido, the latter of which earned him the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, making him the first American to receive that award.
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Praise for this book
"Swiftian satire of the highest order . . . Giddy, scathing and dazzling." ―Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal, on the English-language edition
"[The Sellout] is frequently laugh-out-loud funny and, in the way of the great ones, profoundly thought provoking. A major contribution." ―Mark Levin, Booklist, starred review, on the English-language edition