Flying Home : And Other Stories by Ralph Ellison

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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is one of the great American novels of the postwar era. For decades after its publication, however, Ellison--who died in 1994--seemed to be afflicted by an intermittent case of writer's block. Whether his legendary, unfinished second novel will ever see the light of day is an open question. Meanwhile, Ellison's estate has promised a number of posthumous collections, of which Flying Home and Other Stories is the first. Six of the thirteen stories have never been published before, and every single one is distinguished by the sardonic music of Ellison's prose. Matters of race often occupy the foreground, but as in all of the author's work, the dilemmas are ultimately and irreducibly human ones.

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Written between 1937 and 1954 and now available in paperback for the first time, these thirteen stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison. Six of them remained unpublished during Ellison's lifetime and were discovered among the author's effects in a folder labeled "Early Stories." But they all bear the hallmarks--the thematic reach, musically layered voices, and sheer ebullience--that Ellison would bring to his classic Invisible Man.

The tales in Flying Home range in setting from the Jim Crow South to a Harlem bingo parlor, from the hobo jungles of the Great Depression to Wales during the Second World War. By turns lyrical, scathing, touching, and transcendently wise, Flying Home and Other Stories is a historic volume, an extravagant last bequest from a giant of our literature.

 

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