Booker Prize
Winner of the Man Booker Prize—this fearless satire obliterates every boundary you thought existed. Paul Beatty’s razor-sharp masterpiece takes on race, identity, and the American Dream with prose that’ll make you laugh out loud, then sit in stunned silence. Bold, brilliant, unforgettable.
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction
Named a New York Times Notable Book
Paul Beatty’s razor-sharp masterpiece is the kind of book that makes you laugh out loud one moment and sit back in stunned silence the next. The Sellout is fearless, brilliant satire that takes on everything we thought we knew about race, identity, and the American Dream.
Meet our narrator: a young Black man raised in Dickens, an “agrarian ghetto” on the outskirts of Los Angeles that’s so forgotten it’s been literally erased from the map. After his father—a controversial sociologist who used him as a guinea pig in psychological experiments—is killed in a police shooting, our hero decides to put Dickens back on the map. His method? Reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school.
Yes, you read that right.
What follows is a wild, provocative journey that lands him before the Supreme Court, defending the indefensible. With the help of Hominy Jenkins, the last surviving Little Rascal, Beatty crafts a narrative that’s equal parts absurd and devastatingly real. He skewers sacred cows—the Constitution, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, even the holy grail of the Black Chinese restaurant—with prose that crackles with intelligence and wit.
This is satire at its most daring. The Sellout doesn’t just push boundaries; it obliterates them, then makes you question why those boundaries existed in the first place. A bold, unforgettable read that belongs on every shelf.
A tirelessly inventive modern satirist.
Beatty, author of the deservedly highly praised The White Boy Shuffle (1996), here returns with an equally if not more impressive book, a stirring and important work of satire.
Beatty's book is a hell of a read.
The first American novel to win the Man Booker Prize... a biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court.
Beatty's book is ferociously funny.
The Sellout is brilliant.
A tough-minded satire that skewers racial pieties and political correctness.
Outrageous, hilarious and profound.
A novel of unrelenting satirical force.
| Weight | 0.49 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.46 × 0.76 × 8.24 in |
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| Subject | 21st Century, African American & Black, American, City Life, Family Life, Fantasy, Fiction, Humorous, Literary, Satire, World Literature |
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