Juneteenth (Revised) -- Ralph Ellison

<b>"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., <i>TIME</i></b><br><b> </b><br><b>From the renowned author of the classic novel <i>Invisible Man</i>, Ralph Ellison's <i>Juneteenth</i> is brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise. With a new introduction by National Book Award-winning author and scholar Charles R. Johnson.</b> <p/>Here is Ellison, the master 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 powerful, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. <p/>"Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying senator Adam Sunraider to the Reverend A. Z. Hickman, the itinerant 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. His history encompasses camp meetings where he became the risen Lazarus to inspire the faithful; the more ordinary joys of Southern boyhood; bucolic days as a filmmaker; lovemaking with a young woman 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?<br><br><b>Author:</b> Ralph Ellison<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 05/18/2021<br><b>Pages:</b> 416<br><b>Binding Type:</b>