Flying Home: And Other Stories - Hardcover

Ellison, Ralph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679457046 ISBN 13: 9780679457046

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Written between 1937 and the 1950s, this collection of thirteen never-before-published stories represents the early fictional work of the author of Invisible Man, originally serialized in The Negro Quarterly, New Masses, and other such publications. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo.

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Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City in 1914.  He is the author of Invisible Man (1952), which won the National Book Award and became one of the most important and influential postwar American novels.  He published two volumes of nonfiction, Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986), which, together with unpublished speeches and writings, were brought together as The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison in 1995.  For more than forty years before his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison lived with his wife, Fanny McConnell, in Harlem in New York City.


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ries by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early explorations of (Ellison's) lifelong fascination with the 'complex fate' and 'beautiful absurdity' of American identity" (John Callahan). First serial to The New Yorker. NPR sponsorship.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679457046
• ISBN 13: 9780679457046
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 173
• Herausgeber: Callahan John F.
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