Three days before the shooting-- / Ralph Ellison ; edited by John F. Callahan and Adam Bradley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellison, Ralph.

Contributor:

Callahan, John F., 1940-

Bradley, Adam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American men--Georgia--Fiction.

African American men.

African Americans--Georgia--Fiction.

African Americans.

Race relations--Fiction.

Race relations.

Georgia.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxix, 1101 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

3 days before the shooting

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Library, 2010.

Summary:

Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, this story is a multi generational saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator Adam Sunraider, who's being tended to by "Daddy" Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician turned preacher who raised the orphan Sunraider as a light-skinned black in rural Georgia.

Notes:

"The unfinished second novel"--Dust jacket.

ISBN:

9780375759536 :

0375759530 :

OCLC:

154799741