A biting American satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court
Paul Beatty is the author of four novels - Slumberland, Tuff, The White Boy Shuffle and The Sellout, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2016. He is also the author of two books of poetry: Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce. He is the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African- American Humor. He lives in New York City.
‘Outrageous, hilarious and profound… It takes a whole other level
of sheer audacity to expose atrocious things through the play of
wit.’ FT
‘The most caustic and the most badass first 100 pages of
an American novel I’ve read in at least a decade... The riffs
don’t stop coming in this landmark and deeply aware comic novel.'
New York Times
‘A book of coruscating satire and the darkest humour whose bilious
narrative voice leaves you at once enthralled and exhausted’.
Observer, Best Books of 2016
‘A hilarious, anger-fuelled cadenza that feels as if it were
written in one manic burst’. Mark Haddon, Observer, Best Books of
2016
‘Brilliant. Amazing. Like demented angels wrote it.’ Sarah
Silverman
‘A breathtakingly confrontational American race satire with a big
laugh and a gasp on every page’. Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
‘One of the few books of recent years that has made me choke with
laughter’. Daily Mail, Best Books of 2016
‘A compelling act of demonstrative rhetoric, a masterful show of
verbal energy that questions just how far equality has come and
where it hopes to go’. New Statesman
‘It will make you laugh, but most of all it will make you think.’
The Sunday Times
‘Beatty’s sharp humour challenges pieties from all
sides…Intelligent…entertaining…exhilarating’. Daily
Telegraph
‘Bitterly funny and finely layered…[The Sellout] seems even more
essential after the racially demarcated “whitelash” of Donald
Trump’s victory.’ New Statesman, Books of the Year 2016
'[An] outrageous, riff-strewn satire on race in America…[The
Sellout] combines effervescent comedy and stinging critique, but
its most arresting quality is the lively humanity of its
characters.’ The New Yorker
'Brutal and full of very dark humour, it tells us so much about the
state of American race relations and, by extension, our attitude to
colonialism and black history. Powerful stuff.' Kit de Waal
‘Hilariously caustic.’ Rolling Stone
‘There’s satire and then there’s satire, and without question Paul
Beatty’s caustic third novel, The Sellout, definitely falls into
the latter category…brutally honest and very funny’. Independent
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