Juneteenth

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780241215005 Author(s): John Callahan Format: Paperback Illustrator: Carlo Molinari Language: English Year: 2016 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Pages: 336 Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Description: A jazz novel, a sermon and a song of praise to the richness of African-American experienceFrom Ralph Ellison - author of the classic novel, Invisible Man - the long-awaited follow up. Here is the master of American vernacular - 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 Sunraider to the itinerate 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. Bliss's history encompasses the joys of young southern boyhood; bucolic days as a filmmaker, lovemaking 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? Brilliantly crafted, moving, wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master.

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