Johnson, this brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise novel is the work of an American master. Callahan, who first compiled Juneteenth out of thousands of manuscript pages in 1999, and a new introduction by National Book Award-winning author Charles R. With an updated introduction and additional notes by John F. Through the novel Bliss is initiated into. And behind it all lies a mystery: how did this chosen child become the man who would deny everything to achieve his goals? As is typical of Ellison, Juneteenth is organized around a series of rituals, which, as a modernist, he regarded as one of the bases of all art.
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. As a young man, Sunraider was Bliss, an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself. Hickman, the itinerant Negro preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman.
"Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying senator Adam Sunraider to the Reverend A.
Here is 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. From Ralph Ellison, author of the classic novel Invisible Man, the long-awaited second great narrative-with a new preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson and an updated introduction by Ellison's literary executor John F.
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