{"product_id":"juneteenth-revised-9780593314616","title":"Juneteenth (Revised)","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the classic novel \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man, \u003c\/i\u003eRalph Ellison's \u003ci\u003eJuneteenth \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful and brilliantly crafted tale that explores themes of identity, race, and ambition.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[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., \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an introduction and additional notes by John F. Callahan, who first compiled \u003ci\u003eJuneteenth\u003c\/i\u003e out of thousands of manuscript pages in 1999, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles R. Johnson.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Beautifully written and imaginatively conceived, \u003ci\u003eJuneteenth\u003c\/i\u003e, like \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e, deserves to be read and reread by generations.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Ellison\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Oklahoma City in 1914. He is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1952), winner of the National Book Award and one of the most important and influential American novels of the twentieth century, as well as numerous essays and short stories. He died in New York City in 1994. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn F. Callahan\u003c\/b\u003e is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eTrading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray \u003c\/i\u003eand the Modern Library edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison \u003c\/i\u003eand is literary executor of Ralph Ellison's estate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e is the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Washington. A MacArthur fellow, he is the author of twenty-five books, among them the novel \u003ci\u003eMiddle Passage\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the 1990 National Book Award for fiction\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50598595592466,"sku":"9780593314616","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f3bb36df-39f5-438b-ae65-0e79a6a41cee.jpg?v=1732187779","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/juneteenth-revised-9780593314616","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}