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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100375759530
ISBN-139780375759536
eBay Product ID (ePID)60674903
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Book TitleThree Days before the Shooting ...
Number of Pages1136 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAfrican American / General, Literary
Publication Year2010
GenreFiction
AuthorRalph Ellison
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height2.2 in
Item Weight0.1 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-277049
Reviews"Ralph Ellison's generosity, humor, and nimble language are, of course, on display in Juneteenth, but it is his vigorous intellect that rules the novel. A majestic narrative concept." --Toni Morrison From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey DecimalFIC
SynopsisAt his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Five years later, Random House published Juneteenth, drawn from the central narrative of Ellison's unfinished epic. Three Days Before the Shooting . . . gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published. Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, the story is a gripping multigenerational saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator Adam Sunraider, who's being tended to by "Daddy" Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician turned preacher who raised the orphan Sunraider as a light-skinned black in rural Georgia. Presented in their unexpurgated, provisional state, the narrative sequences form a deeply poetic, moving, and profoundly entertaining book, brimming with humor and tension, composed in Ellison's magical jazz-inspired prose style and marked by his incomparable ear for vernacular speech. Beyond its richly compelling narratives, Three Days Before the Shooting . . . is perhaps most notable for its extraordinary insight into the creative process of one of this country's greatest writers. In various stages of composition and revision, its typescripts and computer files testify to Ellison's achievement and struggle with his material from the mid-1950s until his death forty years later. Three Days Before the Shooting . . . is an essential, fascinating piece of Ralph Ellison's legacy, and its publication is to be welcomed as a major event for American arts and letters.
LC Classification NumberPS3555.L625T57 2010
