Ralph Ellison

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. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master.

"Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the...

Un compendio de trece relatos que nos acercan a la obra de Ralph Ellison, autor imprescindible de la literatura estadounidense del siglo XX.

Vuelo a casa recoge trece relatos escritos a lo largo de un periodo de casi veinte años, de 1937 a 1954. En ellos el lector asiste a la evolución de un estilo y de un pensamiento que culminaría y se consagraría definitivamente con la publicación, en 1952, de El hombre invisible.

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This absorbing collection of letters spans a decade in the lifelong friendship of two remarkable writers who engaged the subjects of literature, race, and identity with deep clarity and passion.
The correspondence begins in 1950 when Ellison is living in New York City, hard at work on his enduring masterpiece, Invisible Man, and Murray is a professor at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Mirroring a jam session in which two jazz musicians "trade...