Juneteenth

Author(s): Ralph Ellison

Fiction

Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Manis a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity.
'Words are your business, boy. Not just theWord. Words are everything'
'Tell me what happened while there's still time,' demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate black baptist minister he calls Daddy Hickman. As a young orphan, Sunraider was taken in and raised by Hickman, before reinventing himself as a racist politician. Now, as the two men confront the truth about their shared past in a final reckoning, Ellison's masterly novel takes in memories of a southern childhood, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and the richness of the African-American experience.
'Majestic' Toni Morrison


Product Information

Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-94) was born in Oklahoma. In 1936 he went to New York, where he met the writers Langston Hughes and Richard Wright; shortly afterwards his stories and articles began to appear in magazines and journals. His debut novel, Invisible Man (1952), won the National Book Award and established Ellison as a major figure in twentieth-century fiction.

General Fields

  • : 9780241215005
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.248
  • : June 2016
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : July 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ralph Ellison
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 813.52
  • : 400
  • : FC