Three Days Before the Shooting . . . The Unfinished Second Novel

Ellison, Ralph

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Language: English

Published by Modern Library, New York, 2010

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Boards and book spine are near-fine, DJ has strike mark thru barcode on lower back panel.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1136 pages; "At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Five years later, Random House published Juneteenth, drawn from the central narrative of Ellison’s unfinished epic. 'Three Days Before the Shooting . . .' gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published. Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, the story is a gripping multigenerational saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator Adam Sunraider, who’s being tended to by “Daddy” Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician turned preacher who raised the orphan Sunraider as a light-skinned black in rural Georgia. Presented in their unexpurgated, provisional state, the narrative sequences form a deeply poetic, moving, and profoundly entertaining book, brimming with humor and tension, composed in Ellison’s magical jazz-inspired prose style and marked by his incomparable ear for vernacular speech.".…

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Title
Three Days Before the Shooting . . . The Unfinished Second Novel
Author
Ellison, Ralph
Publisher
Modern Library, New York
Publication year
2010
Condition
Near Fine
Dust jacket
Very Good+
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0375759530
ISBN 13
9780375759536
Edition
1st Thus; First Printing.
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