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Juneteenth (Revised)

Juneteenth (Revised)

Ellison, Ralph
Johnson, Charles

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0593314611
ISBN13: 9780593314616
Publisher: Vintage
Published: May 18 2021
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From the author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth is a powerful and brilliantly crafted tale that explores themes of identity, race, and ambition.

[A] stunning achievement. . . . Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental.--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Time

The story follows Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator, whose life takes an unexpected turn when he calls for Alonzo Hickman, an old Black minister, to be by his side as he faces a mortal wound. As the two men intimately share their stories and memories, the true shape and substance of the past begin to emerge.

Here is Ellison, a virtuoso of American vernacular--the preacher's hyperbole and the politician's rhetoric, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech--at the height of his powers, telling a moving, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century.

With an introduction and additional notes by John F. Callahan, who first compiled Juneteenth out of thousands of manuscript pages in 1999, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles R. Johnson.

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