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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison - (Modern Library Classics) (Paperback)

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison - (Modern Library Classics) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The complete collection of Ellison's reviews, criticism, and interviews is a witty and literate compendium and the only complete edition on the market.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections <i>Shadow and Act</i> (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as "a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race," and <i>Going to the Territory</i> (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. "Ralph Ellison," wrote Stanley Crouch, "reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Ellison's] essays never fail to be elegantly written, beautifully composed, and intelletually sophisticated." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John F. Callahan</b> is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College. He edited Ralph Ellison's <i>Juneteenth</i> and co-edited, with Albert Murray, the Modern Library edition of <i>Trading Twelves</i>. <p/> <b>Saul Bellow</b>, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, has written thirteen novels and numerous novellas, stories, and essays.

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