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Author
Publisher
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Picador edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside Community College, he spent his childhood as the subject in psychological...