Juneteenth :
a novel /
Ralph Ellison ; edited by John F. Callahan ; preface by Charles Johnson.

Description

Main Author

Ellison, Ralph.

Related Names

Callahan, John F., 1940-

Language(s)

English

Published

New York : Vintage Books, 2000, c1999.

Edition

1st Vintage International ed.

Subjects

Literature, Modern > Literature, Modern / United States.
Race Relations > Race Relations / United States.
African Americans > African Americans / United States.
Legislators > Legislators / Fiction.
Race relations > Race relations / Fiction.
African Americans > African Americans / Fiction.
Passing (Identity) > Passing (Identity) / Fiction.
African American clergy > African American clergy / Fiction.
Southern States > Southern States / Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary

The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out. An unfinished novel by the author of Invisible Man.

Physical Description

xxxi, 368 p. ; 21 cm.

ISBN

0375707549 (pbk.)

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