{"product_id":"juneteenth-revised-vintage-international","title":"Juneteenth (Revised) (Vintage International)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth is a powerful and brilliantly crafted tale that explores themes of identity, race, and ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] stunning achievement. . . . Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental.\"—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story follows Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator, whose life takes an unexpected turn when he calls for Alonzo Hickman, an old Black minister, to be by his side as he faces a mortal wound. As the two men intimately share their stories and memories, the true shape and substance of the past begin to emerge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is Ellison, a virtuoso of American vernacular—the preacher’s hyperbole and the politician’s rhetoric, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech—at the height of his powers, telling a moving, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction and additional notes by John F. Callahan, who first compiled Juneteenth out of thousands of manuscript pages in 1999, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles R. Johnson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Beautifully written and imaginatively conceived, Juneteenth, like Invisible Man, deserves to be read and reread by generations.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ralph Ellison, Charles Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53354367418681,"sku":"9780593314616","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0936\/8833\/2601\/files\/9780593314616.jpg?v=1780414913","url":"https:\/\/rebellionbookstore.com\/products\/juneteenth-revised-vintage-international","provider":"Rebellion Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}