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 challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality--the black Chinese restaurant.
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 that've been there since '68 quake." 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.
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崔莹 导读： [摘要]我希望我的作品让人们明白：世界上存在很多灰色地带，有很多矛盾、很多虚伪。保罗·比第：我在一个几乎全是白人的社区长大，我和妹妹们的学校只有几个黑人孩子和少量拉美裔、亚裔。 10月25日，美国黑人作家保罗·比第（Paul Beatty ）凭借《出卖》（The Sell...
评分崔莹 导读： [摘要]我希望我的作品让人们明白：世界上存在很多灰色地带，有很多矛盾、很多虚伪。保罗·比第：我在一个几乎全是白人的社区长大，我和妹妹们的学校只有几个黑人孩子和少量拉美裔、亚裔。 10月25日，美国黑人作家保罗·比第（Paul Beatty ）凭借《出卖》（The Sell...
评分https://theinitium.com/article/20161117-culture-bookreview-sellout/ 特約撰稿人 張沅汐（張沅汐，俄亥俄州立大學東亞研究碩士，研究興趣為批判理論。文化研究者。） 2016年布克獎由非裔美國作家保羅・貝蒂（Paul Beatty）憑借《The Sellout》一舉奪得。這是美國作家第一...
评分https://theinitium.com/article/20161117-culture-bookreview-sellout/ 特約撰稿人 張沅汐（張沅汐，俄亥俄州立大學東亞研究碩士，研究興趣為批判理論。文化研究者。） 2016年布克獎由非裔美國作家保羅・貝蒂（Paul Beatty）憑借《The Sellout》一舉奪得。這是美國作家第一...
评分https://theinitium.com/article/20161117-culture-bookreview-sellout/ 特約撰稿人 張沅汐（張沅汐，俄亥俄州立大學東亞研究碩士，研究興趣為批判理論。文化研究者。） 2016年布克獎由非裔美國作家保羅・貝蒂（Paul Beatty）憑借《The Sellout》一舉奪得。這是美國作家第一...
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2017-11-11
评分段子／典故太多要跟上真的好累【……虽然是讽刺得很过火很好笑啦……
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评分5%黑色幽默吧，对美国的文化了解不够，少了共同记忆，很难读 30% 之前体力不济，现在慢慢读顺了 80% 每天一章稀里哗啦的笑一笑，喜欢人物及夸张又真实的刻画，没有答案不给vision 85% 看这书老会想起一网络语，圈子不同不必强融????100% 争吵确实无益，但生活也确实虚无但趣味横生
评分Is integration, forced or otherwise, social entropy or social order? 问题很深刻嘛! 读了引子就觉得这书也太敢写了简直无法随便安利 很多典故和黑点都让人拍手叫绝 还实名cue了好几位大法官 最丑的电影明星 最白的rapper 最蠢的知识分子在贵圈最受尊敬真是无法反驳哈哈哈!
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