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Juneteenth (Penguin Classics) Book
Juneteenth is the long-awaited follow-up to Ralph Ellison's 1952 debut Invisible Man. Before his death in 1994, Ellison left behind an uncompleted 2,000-word manuscript from which John Callahan, his literary executor, has quarried a smaller, more coherent work . Gone are the epic proportions that Ellison so clearly envisioned. Instead, Juneteenth revolves around just two characters: Adam Sunraider, a white, race-baiting New England senator, and Alonzo "Daddy" Hickman, a black Baptist minister who turns out to have a paradoxical (and paternal) relationship to his opposite number.As the book opens, Sunraider is delivering a typically bigoted peroration on the Senate floor when hem is peppered by an assassin's bullets. Mortally wounded, he summons the elderly Hickman to his bedside. There … read more...
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