This was an enjoyable read and I would recommend it. thanks for letting me have an advance copy. I'm new to this author.

The Sellout was on my radar for a long time, and bookseller colleagues of mine said I NEED to read this book because they knew I would love it, and not surprisingly they were right!

This is a satire about race in modern America. It begins with our nameless narrator sitting before the Supreme Court. We learn that he is being charged with owning a slave and segregating a school. This makes you almost double-take the narrator, until he brings you back to his childhood. He grew up in a town formerly known as Dickens, but the town is now disappearing, and is barely recognised. Our narrator attempts to bring this town back to life, and in order to achieve this he employs an old resident of Dickens, Hominy, as his slave.
This is a heavy book for sure, but Beatty never lets you think about it because amongst the ethics of slavery and meditations on modern blackness are lots of jokes. A novel about slavery and segregation has never been so humorous. This is a really well balanced book. You may be laughing throughout, but the importance of the authors message is there and he doesn't make you forget it by making you laugh.

This is one of my favourite books. The satiric humour is brilliant, and what I love most in literature. I hate myself for taking so long to read it.

Thank you for the chance to review this book, however, unfortunately, I was unable to download this title before it was archived

Laugh out loud funny, kept my attention and was so well written. An absolute winner!

Really struggled with this at first! Once you get into the writing style, it's a very rewarding read

Dense and tough for somebody who is not born and grown up in the U.S. I'm pretty sure I missed at last half of the cultural references but it was still funny, sometimes too much if you catch my drift, sometimes the author was going on and on for pages and in the end it was like a super stream of consciousness. Still a good reading.

Veramente denso e difficile per chi non é nato e cresciuto negli Stati Uniti; sono piuttosto sicura di essermi persa almeno metá dei riferimenti a film, personaggi famosi, cantanti, etc.etc. comunque un libro divertente, anche troppo a volte. L'autore riesce ad andare avanti anche per tre pagine con battute a raffica, soltanto che poi mi sentivo quasi stremata dalla lettura, come se avessi corso una maratona. Resta comunque un libro consigliabile.

THANKS TO NETGALLEY FOR THE PREVIEW!