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Juneteenth : a novel

Title
Juneteenth : a novel / Ralph Ellison ; edited by John F. Callahan.
Author
Ellison, Ralph
Publication
  • New York : Random House, [1999]
  • ©1999
Supplementary Content
  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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Book/TextUse in library Sc E 99-762Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
Book/TextUse in library JFE 99-13421Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Additional Authors
Callahan, John F., 1940-
Subject
  • African American clergy > Fiction
  • Passing (Identity) > Fiction
  • Southern States > Fiction
  • African Americans > Fiction
  • Father figures > Fiction
  • Race relations > Fiction
  • Legislators > Fiction
  • Black author
Genre/Form
  • Historical fiction.
  • Novels.
  • Fiction.
Contents
Introduction -- Juneteenth -- Notes -- Afterword.
Call Number
Sc E 99-762
ISBN
  • 0394464575
  • 9780394464572
LCCN
98044868
OCLC
40073930
Author
Ellison, Ralph, author.
Title
Juneteenth : a novel / Ralph Ellison ; edited by John F. Callahan.
Publisher
New York : Random House, [1999]
Copyright Date
©1999
Edition
First edition.
Description
xxiii, 368 pages ; 25 cm
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Creator/Contributor Characteristics
African Americans
Men
Oklahomans
New Yorkers (New York State)
Summary
The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out. An unfinished novel by the author of Invisible Man.
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Publisher description
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Callahan, John F., 1940- editor.
Other Form:
Online version: Ellison, Ralph. Juneteenth. 1st ed. New York : Random House, ©1999 (OCoLC)607171254
Research Call Number
Sc E 99-762
JFE 99-13421
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