FLYING HOME AND OTHER STORIES

Ellison, Ralph. Edited By John F. Callahan

ISBN 10: 0679457046 / ISBN 13: 9780679457046

Published by Random House, NY, 1996

About this Item

Frontis: Facsimile of manuscipt page of "I did Not Learn Their Names." Introduction by John F. Callahan. xxxviii. 173pp. Biographical sketch of Ralph Waldo Ellison and John F. Callahan. gray cloth spine with silver title and black paper over boards. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 009783

Bibliographic Details

• Title: FLYING HOME AND OTHER STORIES
• Publisher: Random House, NY
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679457046
• ISBN 13: 9780679457046
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Hardcover

About this title

Synopsis

These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early explorations of (Ellison's) lifelong fascination with the 'complex fate' and 'beautiful absurdity' of American identity" (John Callahan). First serial to The New Yorker. NPR sponsorship.

About the Author

Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City in 1914.  He is the author of Invisible Man (1952), which won the National Book Award and became one of the most important and influential postwar American novels.  He published two volumes of nonfiction, Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986), which, together with unpublished speeches and writings, were brought together as The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison in 1995.  For more than forty years before his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison lived with his wife, Fanny McConnell, in Harlem in New York City.


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