The Black Ball - Couverture souple

Ellison, Ralph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241339227 ISBN 13 : 9780241339220

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2018

Synopsis

'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.'

Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest rea

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241339227
• ISBN 13: 9780241339220
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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