Juneteenth (Revised)

Title: Juneteenth (Revised) Author: Ralph Ellison ISBN: 9780593314616 Publisher: Vintage Published: 2021 Binding: Book Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1434060 Publisher Description: "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., TIME From the renowned author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth is brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise. With a new introduction by National Book Award-winning author and scholar Charles R. Johnson. 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. "Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying senator Adam Su