![]() ![]() It is both funny and painful at the same time.” While making us laugh, it also makes us wince. “It manages to eviscerate every social taboo and politically correct nuance, every sacred cow. “The Sellout is one of those very rare books: which is able to take satire, which is a very difficult subject and not always done well, and plunges it into the heart of contemporary American society with a savage wit of the kind I haven’t seen since Swift or Twain. ![]() This is somebody writing at the top of their game.”įoreman called it a “novel for our times”, particularly in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement. He never once lets up or pulls his punches. ![]() It is highwire act which he pulls off with tremendous verve and energy and confidence. ![]() “While you’re being nailed, you’re being tickled. “The truth is rarely pretty and this is a book that nails the reader to the cross with cheerful abandon … that is why the novel works. “Fiction should not be comfortable,” Foreman said. Beatty has admitted readers might find it a difficult book to digest but the historian Amanda Foreman, who chaired this year’s judging panel, said that was no bad thing. ![]()
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