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Hard to write a book on racism that is not angry or condescending. The success of the book is it contain a lot of very serious contents on racism, and how the Black Americans experience is not really understood by other people who are not going through the similar experience in life. All the m...
I won’t pretend that I understood the whole book. Every sentence demanded reflection, as every sentence was ambiguous, filled with double entendres and puns, some of which I did not quite comprehend immediately, and some I never quite understood. Still, written with wit and charm, eloquence and flui...
If I felt more emotionally connected to the book and the story I would have given it five stars. Notwithstanding this, Beatty' writing is fabulous. I think what he does best is, with his observations and turns of phrase, show that racism is about power, the denigration and neutering of a sense of, a...
Regrettably, I'm running way behind on my Man Booker reads for this year. Only twelve days remain until the prize is awarded and I still have four books to go. I doubt I'll be able to get through them all, but I'm still making an attempt to do so.Of the six contenders, The Sellout was the title I le...
Paul Beatty’s searingly caustic and smart satire, The Sellout, begins with the unnamed narrator about to appear before the Supreme Court for unspecified crimes against the Constitution. After the prologue, the narrator takes us back to his childhood before showing how he ended up with a slave and se...
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