5/13/2023 0 Comments Juneteenth ellison![]() ![]() ![]() "An extraordinary book, a work of staggering virtuosity. With its publication, a giant world of literature has just grown twice as tall." - Newsday Here is the master of American vernacular at the height of his powers, evoking the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech. And behind it all lies a mystery: how did this chosen child become the man who would deny everything to achieve his goals? Bliss's history encompasses the joys of young southern boyhood bucolic days as a filmmaker, lovemaking in a field in the Oklahoma sun. As a young man, Sunraider was Bliss, an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself. "Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman. ![]() Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master. From the author of bestselling Invisible Man-the classic novel of African-American experience-this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. ![]()
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