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In Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator from New England, is mortally wounded by an assassin’s bullet while making a speech on the Senate floor. To the shock of all who think they know him, Sunraider calls out from his deathbed for Alonzo Hickman, an old black minister, to be brought to his side. The reverend is summoned; the two are left alone. “Tell me what happened while there’s still time,” demands the dying Sunraider.Out of their conversation, & the inner rhythms of memories whose weight has been borne in silence for many long years, a story emerges. Senator Sunraider, once known as Bliss, was raised by Reverend Hickman in a black community steeped in religion & music (not unlike Ralph Ellison’s own childhood home) & was brought up to be a preaching prodigy in a joyful black Baptist ministry that traveled throughout the South & the Southwest. Together one last time, the 2 men retrace the course of their shared life in an “anguished attempt,” Ellison once put it, “to arrive at the true shape & substance of a sundered past & its meaning.” In the end, the two men confront their most painful memories, memories that hold the key to understanding th

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Author

Ellison, Ralph; Johnson, Charles

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593314616

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24