Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray - Brossura

Ellison, Ralph; Murray, Albert

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ISBN 10: 0375708057 ISBN 13: 9780375708053

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001

Riassunto

A compelling assortment of personal letters captures a decade in the lifelong friendship of Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison, beginning in 1950 when Murray was a professor at Tuskegee Institute and Ellison was working on Invisible Man, and describes their mutual love of jazz, their writing careers, racial injustice, and their contemporaries--James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and others. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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“An invaluable slice of literary history.... Fascinating and endlessly informative.”–The Miami Herald

“The greatest pleasure to be found in Trading Twelves is the warmth of friendship.”–The New York Times Book Review

“The prospect of reading letters exchanged between Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray suggests an opportunity to eavesdrop on history in the making.”–The Washington Post Book World

L'autore:

Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma in 1914. He is the author of the novel Invisible Man (1952), as well as numerous essays and short stories. He died in New York City in 1994. Random House publishedJuneteenth, the book-length excerpt from his unfinished second novel, posthumously in 1999.

Albert Murray was born in Alabama in 1916. A cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, he has taught at several colleges, including Colgate and Barnard, and his works includeThe Omni-Americans, South to a Very Old Place, Train Whistle Guitar,The Blue Devils of Nada, and The Seven League Boots. Murray lives in New York City.

John F. Callahan is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He is the editor ofJuneteenth and the Modern Library edition of The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison. Callahan is the literary executor of Ralph Ellison's estate.
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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375708057
• ISBN 13: 9780375708053
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Redattore: Callahan John