The Sellout: Winner Of The Man Booker Prize 2016

**Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2016**‘Outrageous | hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama | Financial Times‘The longer you stare at Beatty's pages | the smarter you'll get.' Guardian‘The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read.' New York Times.A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court | The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game.Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of 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 work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting | he discovers there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral.What's more | Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair | the narrator 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.In his trademark absurdist style | which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh and cry | The Sellout is an outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of our time.