Raw, lyrical and blazing with intensity, these short stories are a
potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison, author of
Invisible Man. 'He saw the dark bird glide into the sun and glow
like a bird of flaming gold' Ranging from the Jim Crow South to a
Harlem bingo parlour, from the hobo jungles of the Great Depression
to Wales during the Second World War, they all display the
musically layered voices, soaring language and sheer ebullience
that made Ellison a giant of twentieth-century American writing.
Written early in Ellison's career, several of these fourteen
stories were unpublished in his lifetime, including 'A Storm of
Blizzard Proportions' which features in this collection for the
first time. 'Approach the simple elegance of Chekhov' Washington
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