![]() Out of their conversation, and the inner rhythms of memories whose weight has been borne in silence for many long years, a story emerges. “Tell me what happened while there’s still time,” demands the dying Sunraider. ![]() The reverend is summoned the two are left alone. To the shock of all who think they know him, Sunraider calls out from his deathbed for Alonzo Hickman, an old black minister, to be brought to his side. In Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator from New England, is mortally wounded by an assassin’s bullet while making a speech on the Senate floor. A majestic narrative concept.”-Toni Morrison ![]() “Ralph Ellison’s generosity, humor and nimble language are, of course, on display in Juneteenth, but it is his vigorous intellect that rules the novel. Callahan, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson The radiant, posthumous second novel by the visionary author of Invisible Man, featuring an introduction and a new postscript by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. ![]()
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