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    "title": "The Sellout",
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    "annotation": "<p>Paperback edition of the Man Booker Prize winning novel, for fans of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller. Born in Dickens in the outskirts of LA, the narrator spends his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. But after his father dies, all he's left with is the bill for the funeral, and the news that Dickens has been wiped off the map. He sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: by reinstating slavery and segregation</p>",
    "description": "Outrageous, hilarious and profound.\u2019 Simon Schama, Financial Times\nThe longer you stare at Beatty\u2019s pages, the smarter you\u2019ll get.\u2019 Guardian\nThe most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I\u2019ve read.\u2019 New York Times\nA 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.\nBorn 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\u2019s 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\u2019s left is a bill for a drive-through funeral.\nWhat\u2019s 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.\nIn his trademark absurdist style, which has the uncanny ability to make.\n\n",
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