About this title: In this collection of essays and interviews, Ellison writes of literature and folklore, jazz and black culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. This volume includes the critically acclaimed works Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986).
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 2003-09-09
ISBN-13:9780812968262ISBN:0812968263
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 2003-09-09
ISBN-13:9780812968262ISBN:0812968263
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679601760ISBN:0679601767
Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 896 p. Modern Library (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. New copy, 2nd Edition, in same mint condition as sent to media professional direct from RH Modern Library. Superficial stread--not quite a scrach---on back of DJ when held to light, but otherwise book & DJ mint. Excellent addition to ANY library--belongs next to Invisible Man. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780812968262ISBN:0812968263
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN-13:9780812968262ISBN:0812968263
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Edition: Third printing of the first edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Twayne Publisher's, New York
Date Published: 1991
Description: A fine copy. (ELLISON, Ralph). RALPH ELLISON by Mark Busby. Octavo, blue cloth, pp. xiii, 172. Published as part of The Twaynes' United States Authors Series. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679601760ISBN:0679601767
Description: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0679601767. Very slight shelf wear to mylar-protected dust jacket; interior clean tight and unmarked.; Modern Library; 1.46 x 8.35 x 5.74 Inches. read more
Edition: First
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: The Modern Library, New York
Date Published: (1995)
ISBN-13:9780679601760ISBN:0679601767
Description: First edition. Edited with an introduction by John F. Callahan. Preface by Saul Bellow. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review copy with slip laid in. read more
Edition: Modern Library Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679601760ISBN:0679601767
Description: New in New dust jacket. 0679601767. New and unread 1995 Modern Library Edition, first printing cloth hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Protective mylar cover.; Modern Library; 1.46 x 8.35 x 5.74 Inches; 896 pages. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679601760ISBN:0679601767
Description: 0679601767 Ex-library with usual stampings, etc. Otherwise clean and tight. Hardcover with dj in protective mylar. Rear free endpaper has been removed. 856 pages. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE INC
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780812968262ISBN:0812968263
Description: Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections "Shadow and Act (1... read more
"I recommend the essay "Twentieth Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity". Ellison's analysis of "hard boiled" fiction explained to me what it was that always annoyed me about Hemingway, and the (to me) puzzling prevalence and celebration of writers like Cheever, Updike, Salinger, and Roth -- all celebrating apolitical, bourgeois characters standing for nothing.
Ellison is often arch and egotistical, but he was a great prose stylist and did stand for human dignity and equality."
"This collection has everything that is in "Shadow & Act" as well as "Living With Music" -- plus more. There are a couple of interviews with Ellison, as well as his "notes" during the writing of "Invisible Man."
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