The sellout / Paul Beatty.

Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens -- on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles -- the narrator of The Sellout 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 th...

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Main Author: Beatty, Paul (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Picador, 2016.
Edition:First Picador edition.
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