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From the author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth is a powerful and brilliantly crafted tale that explores themes of identity, race, and ambition.'[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., TimeThe 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. Here 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. With an introduction and additional notes by John F. Callahan, who first compiled Juneteenth out of thousands of manuscript pages in 1999, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles R. Johnson. “Beautifully written and imaginatively conce

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Author

Ralph Ellison, Charles Johnson

Publisher

New York: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307797360

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (286 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14