FLYING HOME & OTHER STORIES

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• ISBN13: 9780679457046
• ISBN10: 0679457046
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: RANDOM

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City in 1914.  He is the author of <b>Invisible Man</b> (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, <b>Shadow and Act</b> (1964) and <b>Going to the Territory</b> (1986), which, together with unpublished speeches and writings, were brought together as <b>The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison</b> 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.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Party Down at the Square	p. 3
Boy on a Train	p. 12
Mister Toussan	p. 22
Afternoon	p. 33
That I Had the Wings	p. 45
A Coupla Scalped Indians	p. 63
Hymie's Bull	p. 82
I Did Not Learn Their Names	p. 89
A Hard Time Keeping Up	p. 97
The Black Ball	p. 110
King of the Bingo Game	p. 123
In a Strange Country	p. 137
Flying Home	p. 147
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