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Juneteenth
  • Published: 7 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141981482
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

Juneteenth

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7 July 2016
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18 July 2016
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Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity.
'Words are your business, boy. Not just the Word. Words are everything'
'Tell me what happened while there's still time,' demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate black baptist minister he calls Daddy Hickman. As a young orphan, Sunraider was taken in and raised by Hickman, before reinventing himself as a racist politician. Now, as the two men confront the truth about their shared past in a final reckoning, Ellison's masterly novel takes in memories of a southern childhood, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and the richness of the African-American experience.
'Majestic' Toni Morrison
  • Published: 7 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141981482
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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About the authors

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) was born in Oklahoma and trained as a musician at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936, at which time a visit to New York and a meeting with Richard Wright led to his first attempts at fiction, and eventually winning the National Book Award for Invisible Man. Appointed to the Academy of American Arts and Letters in 1964, Ellison taught at several institutions, including Bard College, the University of Chicago, and New York University, where he was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities. Ellison died in 1994.
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John Callahan

John Callahan is a quadriplegic who was paralyzed in an auto accident in 1972, since then he has became a famous cartoonist. He has been profiled on 60 Minutes and NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where Callahan can been seen buzzing around his neighborhood in his wheelchair.
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