{"product_id":"juneteenth-revised-paperback","title":"Juneteenth (Revised) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRalph Ellison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCharles Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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., \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the renowned author of the classic novel \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e, Ralph Ellison's \u003ci\u003eJuneteenth\u003c\/i\u003e is brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise. With a new introduction by National Book Award-winning author and scholar Charles Johnson.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Ellison\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Oklahoma City in 1914. He is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1952), winner of the National Book Award and one of the most important and influential American novels of the twentieth century, as well as numerous essays and short stories. He died in New York City in 1994. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn F. Callahan\u003c\/b\u003e is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eTrading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray \u003c\/i\u003eand the Modern Library edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison \u003c\/i\u003eand is literary executor of Ralph Ellison's estate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e is the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Washington. A MacArthur fellow, he is the author of twenty-five books, among them the novel \u003ci\u003eMiddle Passage\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the 1990 National Book Award for fiction\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699081023551,"sku":"9780593314616","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/caae95c70bbcafbd7938d0b0a147c91f.webp?v=1765012397","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/juneteenth-revised-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}