{"product_id":"juneteenth-a-novel-vintage-international-by-ralph-ellison","title":"Juneteenth: A Novel (Vintage International) by Ralph Ellison","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"2xmef2-d1c118-y1msjo-q4vai0\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the author of the classic novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eInvisible Man, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRalph Ellison's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eJuneteenth \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis a powerful and brilliantly crafted tale that explores themes of identity, race, and ambition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"[A] stunning achievement. . . . Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental.\"—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story follows Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator, whose life takes an unexpected turn when he calls for Alonzo Hickman, an old Black minister, to be by his side as he faces a mortal wound. As the two men intimately share their stories and memories, the true shape and substance of the past begin to emerge. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is Ellison, a virtuoso of American vernacular—the preacher’s hyperbole and the politician’s rhetoric, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech—at the height of his powers, telling a moving, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an introduction and additional notes by John F. Callahan, who first compiled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJuneteenth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e out of thousands of manuscript pages in 1999, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles R. Johnson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Beautifully written and imaginatively conceived, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eJuneteenth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eInvisible Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, deserves to be read and reread by generations.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ReadersWorldUAE","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":67630771470486,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":67630771503254,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0691\/5486\/5302\/files\/32_21929732-19b5-44c7-a6cc-b168a050d7e2.png?v=1792404427","url":"https:\/\/readersworlduae.com\/products\/juneteenth-a-novel-vintage-international-by-ralph-ellison","provider":"ReadersWorldUAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}