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| Verlag | Penguin Random House |
| Auflage | 2021 |
| Seiten | 416 |
| Format | 13,0 x 20,2 x 2,1 cm |
| Gewicht | 301 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Vintage International |
| EAN | 9780593314616 |
| Bestell-Nr | 59331461EA |
From the author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth is a powerful and brilliantly crafted tale that explores themes of identity, race, and ambition.
"[A] stunning achievement. . . . 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
The story follows Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator, whose life takes an unexpected turn when he calls for Alonzo Hickman, an old Black minister, to be by his side as he faces a mortal wound. As the two men intimately share their stories and memories, the true shape and substance of the past begin to emerge.
Here is Ellison, a virtuoso 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 moving, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century.
With an introdu ction and additional notes by John F. Callahan, who first compiled Juneteenth out of thousands of manuscript pages in 1999, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles R. Johnson.
Beautifully written and imaginatively conceived, Juneteenth, like Invisible Man, deserves to be read and reread by generations. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rezension:
[A] vastly ambitious informing allegory, an allegory made rich, as in Invisible Man, with the sensory details of which Ellison was such a master." -The New York Review of Books
"[A] stunning achievement. . . . Juneteenth is a tour de force of untutored eloquence. 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
"Juneteenth . . . threatens to come as close as any since Huckleberry Finn to grabbing the ring of the Great American Novel." -Los Angeles Times
Eloquent, ardent, and worth the wait. . . . Beautifully written and imaginatively conceived, Juneteenth, like Invisible Man, deserves to be read and reread by generations. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
