{"product_id":"juneteenth-revised-vintage-international-paperback-may-18-2021-by-ralph-ellison-author-charles-johnson-preface","title":"Juneteenth (Revised) (Vintage International) Paperback – May 18, 2021 by Ralph Ellison (Author), Charles Johnson (Preface)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the author of the classic novel\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eInvisible Man,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRalph Ellison's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eJuneteenth\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis a powerful and brilliantly crafted tale that explores themes of identity, race, and ambition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"[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.,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an introduction and additional notes by John F. Callahan, who first compiled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJuneteenth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e out of thousands of manuscript pages in 1999, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles R. Johnson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Beautifully written and imaginatively conceived,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eJuneteenth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, like\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, deserves to be read and reread by generations.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53108924580156,"sku":"9780593314616","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0273\/2005\/files\/71Ai2pBcq1L._SL1500.jpg?v=1780667570","url":"https:\/\/frugalbookstore.net\/products\/juneteenth-revised-vintage-international-paperback-may-18-2021-by-ralph-ellison-author-charles-johnson-preface","provider":"Frugal Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}