Flying Home: and Other Stories

Ellison, Ralph

ISBN 10: 0679457046 / ISBN 13: 9780679457046

Published by Random House, New York, 1996

About this Item

Hardcover, xxxviii, 173 pp., unclipped illustrated jacket. Edited and with an Introduction by John E. Callahan. Minimal wear, unmarked, tight binding, nice jacket. Thirteen of Ellison's short stories, six of which were never published during his lifetime.

Seller Inventory # 023497

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flying Home: and Other Stories
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679457046
• ISBN 13: 9780679457046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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 He published two volumes of nonfiction, Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986), which, together with unpublished speeches and writings, were brought together as The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison in 1995.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.


From the Trade Paperback edition.