Ralph Ellison

Three Days Before the Shooting

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From the author of bestselling Invisible Man-the classic novel of African-American experience-this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master.Tell me what happened while there's still time, demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman. As a young man, Sunraider was Bliss, an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself. Bliss's history encompasses the joys of young southern boyhood; bucolic days as a filmmaker, lovemaking in a field in the Ok… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Callahan, John F. (Hrsg.) / Bradley, Adam (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-58836-089-2
EAN: 9781588360892
Produktnummer: 15724488
Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 1136 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'985 KB

Über den Autor

Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City in 1914. He is the author of the novel Invisible Man (1952), winner of the National Book Award and one of the most important and influential American novels of the twentieth century, as well as numerous essays and short stories. He died in New York City in 1994. John F. Callahan is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He is the editor of the Modern Library edition of The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison and is literary executor of Ralph Ellison's estate.