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Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1966 • Signet

Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1966 • Signet

$20.00 USD
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Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison 

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1966] SIGNET BOOKS 

Beautiful unread copy with some minor wear.  *Name of original owner written on front endpaper.  Reads like new. 

 National Book Award Finalist for Arts and Letters (1965)

With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America.

His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright, Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker, The Birth of a Nation and the Dante-esque landscape of Harlem—“the scene and symbol of the Negro’s perpetual alienation in the land of his birth.” Throughout, he gives us what amounts to an episodic autobiography that traces his formation as a writer as well as the genesis of Invisible Man.

On every page, Ellison reveals his idiosyncratic and often contrarian brilliance, his insistence on refuting both black and white stereotypes of what an African American writer should say or be. The result is a book that continues to instruct, delight, and occasionally outrage readers.
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