INVISIBLE MAN established Ralph Ellison as the author of one of the most important and influential American novels of the twentieth century. He is remembered as a writer who captured a true sense of the African-American experience. JUNETEENTH joins INVISIBLE MAN and FLYING HOME & OTHER STORIES on the Penguin Modern Classics list.
One of the most important American novels of the twentieth
century
*Times*
A brilliant individual victory . . . proving that a truly heroic
quality can exist among our contemporaries
*Saul Bellow*
A stunning block-buster of a book that will floor and flabbergast
some people, bedevil and intrigue others, and keep everybody
reading right through to its explosive end
*Langston Hughes*
Don't try to write the Great American Novel, it has already been
done . . . any US epic must address race, which remains the
greatest single issue the country faces.
*The Week*
This audio is a thoughtful, wonderful version of one of the best works of American fiction of the 20th century. Peter Francis James expresses every nuance of the Northern and Southern black, white, and Caribbean dialects Ellison employed, reading with lyrical feeling and passion throughout this well-produced recording. The experiences of the unnamed protagonist in the rural South and in post-World War II Harlem serve as allegories for maturing intellectual, emotional, and moral sensitivities in us all, black or white, rich or poor, 1950s or 1990s. Though blessed with individual gifts, perhaps even with social privilege, we become, like the protagonist, a construct of others' prejudices, expectations, and stereotypesDwe become ambiguous to self, invisible to our own society. The society, attitudes, and institutions of the 1950s play large roles in shaping the invisible hero. It seems a shame that not much has changed: parallel influences seem to have kept us from understanding very much more as a society now than we knew then. Highly recommended for adult fiction collections.DCliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century
* Times *
A brilliant individual victory . . . proving that a truly heroic
quality can exist among our contemporaries -- Saul Bellow
A stunning block-buster of a book that will floor and flabbergast
some people, bedevil and intrigue others, and keep everybody
reading right through to its explosive end -- Langston Hughes
Don't try to write the Great American Novel, it has already been
done . . . any US epic must address race, which remains the
greatest single issue the country faces. -- Paul Gambaccini * The
Week *
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