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Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious National Book Award, tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me.' Published in 1952 when American society was on the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual. As John Callahan says, 'In an extrarordinary imaginative leap, he hit upon the single word for the different yet shared condition of African Americans, Americans, and, for that matter, the human individual in the 20th century, and beyond'. This edition includes Ralph Ellison's introduction to the thirtieth anniversary edition of Invisible Man, a fascinating account of the novel's seven year gestation.
The memoir of legendary cartoonist John Callahan, now a major
motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Joaquin
Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara. Featuring more than 60 of
Callahan's original cartoons In 1972, at the age of twenty-one,
John Callahan was involved in a car crash that made him a
quadriplegic. A heavy drinker since the age of twelve (alcohol had
played a role in his crash), the accident could have been the
beginning of a downward spiral. Instead, it sparked a personal
transformation. By 1978, Callahan had sworn off drinking for good
and began to draw cartoons. Over the next three decades, until his
death in 2010, Callahan would become one of America's most beloved
- and at times polarising - cartoonists. His work, which shows off
a wacky and sometimes warped sense of humour, pokes fun at social
conventions and pushes boundaries. One cartoon features Christ at
the cross with a thought bubble reading 'T.G.I.F.' In another,
three sheriffs on horseback approach an empty wheelchair in the
desert. 'Don't worry,' one sheriff says to another, 'He won't get
far on foot.' Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot recounts
Callahan's life story, from the harrowing to the hilarious.
Featuring more than sixty of Callahan's cartoons, it's a compelling
look at art, addiction, disability and fame.
New editions of three foundational texts, the Tao Te Ching, the
Dhammapada, and the Bhagavad Gita.
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Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Man is
a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity. 'Words are
your business, boy. Not just the Word. Words are everything' 'Tell
me what happened while there's still time,' demands the dying
Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate black baptist minister he
calls Daddy Hickman. As a young orphan, Sunraider was taken in and
raised by Hickman, before reinventing himself as a racist
politician. Now, as the two men confront the truth about their
shared past in a final reckoning, Ellison's masterly novel takes in
memories of a southern childhood, the rhythms of jazz and gospel
and the richness of the African-American experience. 'Majestic'
Toni Morrison
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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This absorbing collection of letters spans a decade in the lifelong friendship of two remarkable writers who engaged the subjects of literature, race, and identity with deep clarity and passion.
The correspondence begins in 1950 when Ellison is living in New York City, hard at work on his enduring masterpiece, Invisible Man, and Murray is a professor at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Mirroring a jam session in which two jazz musicians "trade twelves"—each improvising twelve bars of music around the same musical idea-their lively dialog centers upon their respective writing, the jazz they both love so well, on travel, family, the work literary contemporaries (including Richard Wright, James Baldwin, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway) and the challenge of racial inclusiveness that they wish to pose to America through their craft. Infused with warmth, humor, and great erudition, Trading Twelves offers a glimpse into literary history in the making—and into a powerful and enduring friendship.
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