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{{newreview|author=Paul Beatty|title=The Sellout|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''This may be hard to believe, coming from a black man, but I've never stolen anything.''
Isn't that one of the great opening lines of literature?
Our black hero and narrator, surname Me, first name unknown, was born in the southern Los Angeles suburb of Dickens and subjected to an isolated upbringing dominated by his father's extreme views on race, supposedly the subject of a psychological memoir which will solve their financial problems, but cruel and unnatural to anyone with an ounce of humanity. To add insult to injury Me discovered after his father's death (a racially provoked shooting) that there was no memoir. A drive-by shooting produces nothing more substantial than a bill for a drive-through funeral, but it starts Me on the path which will end in the Supreme Court, the subject of a race trial: ''Me v the United States of America''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070154</amazonuk>
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|author= Paul Thurlby