Beatty, Paul.
Summary: "Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEASummary: Set against the backdrop of the changing seasons, Paul, a short-fused ex-con, finds unlikely comfort, stability, and camaraderie when he takes an odd job in park maintenance. On his first day, he's teamed with Murph, a groundskeeping veteran who manages to defuse an outburst between Paul and their snide supervisor. Paul sticks with the job, and, as the months pass, he and Murph work their way...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002