Juneteenth

Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison


ISBN
9780241140840
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
400
Dimensions
163 x 240 x 37mm

It is Washington, DC, in the 1950s, and a race-baiting senator has just been shot on the Senate floor by a young black man. On his deathbed the senator calls out for a mysterious stranger, an elderly black Baptist minister from Georgia, who comes to his side. Their remarkable conversation and the memories it sparks take them back through the senator's life to the deeply buried secrets of their shared past, and finally to the tragic event that first brought them together. A jazz novel, a sermon, a song of praise to the richness of the African-American experience, a showcase for a writer of unsurpassed lyrical gifts, an autobiographical reckoning with Ellison's own life journey, Juneteenth is a major new American myth.
'Awaited more keenly perhaps than any other [novel] in American literary history.'
New Yorker
38.00


This product is unable to be ordered online. Please check in-store availability.
Juneteenth is Out of Print

Other Titles by Ralph Ellison


You might also like

Eucalyptus
22.99
22.99
_% Off
Fly Away Peter
22.99
22.99
_% Off
Whirlwind
24.99
24.99
_% Off
On Chesil Beach
22.99
22.99
_% Off
The End Of The Affair
19.99
19.99
_% Off
If We Were Villains
16.99
16.99
_% Off
Power Without Glory
22.99
22.99
_% Off
Home
24.95
24.95
_% Off
Jazz
22.99
22.99
_% Off
The Shadow of Perseus
24.99
24.99
_% Off

RRP refers to the Recommended Retail Price as set out by the original publisher at time of release.
The RRP set by overseas publishers may vary to those set by local publishers due to exchange rates and shipping costs.
Due to our competitive pricing, we may have not sold all products at their original RRP.