
The Sellout
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Narrated by:
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Prentice Onayemi
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By:
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Paul Beatty
About this listen
Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Born in Dickens, Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's memoir will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed, he discovers there never was a memoir.
Fuelled by despair, he sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
©2015 Paul Beatty (P)2015 Audible, Inc.Critic Reviews
Would you listen to The Sellout again? Why?
My first thought was simply to write 'Breath-Taking' and leave the rest to the imagination, but this author deserves something far less cliched. Paul Beatty has produced a work of effortless wit and borderless courage, which is quite possibly the funniest, and simultaneously insightful, book I've had the joy to read for a decade. Centred precariously on racial themes, and even more incendiary ideas, this book feels as if it was written freely, and without of the restraint that might frame the efforts less audacious writers. The result is an unshackled pleasure, that reads effortlessly from one subtle observation to it's explosive counterpoint. I would read this again, if only to soak up some of the detail I might have missed in my first pass, but also just for the sheer racous pleasure of it.What other book might you compare The Sellout to, and why?
Vonnegut for it's unconventional irreverence in an overly analytical and judgemental world.Marlon James, for the raw and unrestrained freedom of it's characters to self-destruct, and DBC Pierre, for the sheer reckless fun of it.Which scene did you most enjoy?
When a slaves's request to be 'beaten' threatens to contradict or even betray the nature of the central character, Beatty effortlessly delivers the funniest and most consistent solution imaginable.The Sellout is a form of literary induced Ashma
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Clever, tricky. Loved it.
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What just happened
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absolutely fabulous.
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Incredible
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quality
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BRILLIANT prose and the perfect performance to bring it to life.
Loved it!
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Better heard rather than read
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First time I lol'd since Hitchhiker's Guide
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This... is something else
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