Three Days Before the Shooting . . . - Couverture rigide

Ellison, Ralph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0375759530 ISBN 13 : 9780375759536

Editeur : Modern Library Inc, 2010

Synopsis

An extraordinary book, a work of staggering virtuosity. With its publication, a giant world of literature has just grown twice as tall.--Newsday From Ralph Ellison--author of the classic novel of African-American experience, Invisible Man--the long-awaited second novel. Here is the master of American vernacular--the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech--at the height of his powers, telling a powerful, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Tell me what happened while there's still time, demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate Negro 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 Oklahoma sun. And behind it all lies a mystery: how did this chosen child become the man who would deny everything to achieve his goals? Brilliantly crafted, moving, wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Modern Library Inc
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0375759530
• ISBN 13: 9780375759536
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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