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The Sellout (Booker Prize Winner)

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Politics, people, history, entertainment and art: Nothing is off-limits in this screamingly funny satire that delivers a sharp portrait of American (and riffs off Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as it does).

Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize

Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction


Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal


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. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the fa...

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