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Three days before the shooting--, [the unfinished second novel] /, Ralph Ellison ; edited by John F. Callahan and Adam Bradley

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Three days before the shooting--, [the unfinished second novel] /, Ralph Ellison ; edited by John F. Callahan and Adam Bradley

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eng

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no index present

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fiction

Main title

Three days before the shooting--

Oclc number

154799741

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Ralph Ellison ; edited by John F. Callahan and Adam Bradley

Sub title

[the unfinished second novel] /

Summary

"This book gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all of the parts of a planned novel, including three major sequences never before published. Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, the story is a multigenerational saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, 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."--Amazon.com

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3 days before the shooting--

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