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Ralph Ellison: A Biography. [1st hardcover].
by Rampersad, Arnold
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+ dj. (EX-LIBRARY copy in protective cover. Meager shelf wear else a clean/tight/crisp copy).
- ISBN 10
- 0375408274
- ISBN 13
- 9780375408274
- Seller
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About This Item
New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 2007. HARDCOVER.. VG+/VG+ dj. (EX-LIBRARY copy in protective cover. Meager shelf wear else a clean/tight/crisp copy). Octavo. (8vo.). Frontispiece + 24 pages of vintage photographs. viii. + 664pp. Source Notes, Index. Brown boards & brown cloth back. Deckle edge. FORMER LIBRARY COPY. First Edition, 1st Printing. FORMER LIBRARY COPY. Text clean/tight/crisp: no writings.
Synopsis
Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison's strange inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigmatic figure. Arnold Rampersad skillfully tells the story of a writer whose thunderous novel and astute, courageous essays on race, literature, and culture assure him of a permanent place in our literary heritage. Starting with Ellison's hardscrabble childhood in Oklahoma and his ordeal as a student in Alabama, Rampersad documents his improbable, painstaking rise in New York to a commanding place on the literary scene. With scorching honesty but also fair and compassionate, Rampersad lays bare his subject's troubled psychology and its impact on his art and on the people about him.This book is both the definitive biography of Ellison and a stellar model of literary biography.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Booktopia
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 10031017
- Title
- Ralph Ellison: A Biography. [1st hardcover].
- Author
- Rampersad, Arnold
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+ dj. (EX-LIBRARY copy in protective cover. Meager shelf wear else a clean/tight/crisp copy).
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375408274
- ISBN 13
- 9780375408274
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- 2007.
- Pages
- viii. + 664pp.
- Keywords
- Ralph Ellison Biography 20th Century African American Literary Criticism History
- Size
- Octavo. (8vo.).
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