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Flying Home

By Ralph Ellison

By Ralph Ellison

By Ralph Ellison

By Ralph Ellison

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Part of Vintage International

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $16.00

Jan 12, 1998 | ISBN 9780679776611

Ebook $6.99

Jun 01, 2011 | ISBN 9780307797391

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    About Flying Home

    Written between 1937 and 1954 and now available in paperback for the first time, these thirteen stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison. Six of them remained unpublished during Ellison’s lifetime and were discovered among the author’s effects in a folder labeled "Early Stories." But they all bear the hallmarks–the thematic reach, musically layered voices, and sheer ebullience–that Ellison would bring to his classic Invisible Man.

    The tales in Flying Home range in setting from the Jim Crow South to a Harlem bingo parlor, from the hobo jungles of the Great Depression to Wales during the Second World War. By turns lyrical, scathing, touching, and transcendently wise, Flying Home and Other Stories is a historic volume, an extravagant last bequest from a giant of our literature.

    About Flying Home

    These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early explorations of (Ellison’s) lifelong fascination with the ‘complex fate’ and ‘beautiful absurdity’ of American identity" (John Callahan). First serial to The New Yorker. NPR sponsorship.

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    Also by Ralph Ellison

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    The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
    Flying Home And Other Stories
    Three Days Before the Shooting . . .
    The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
    See all books by Ralph Ellison

    About Ralph Ellison

    Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) was born in Oklahoma and trained as a musician at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936, at which time a visit to New York and a meeting with Richard Wright led to his first attempts at fiction. Invisible… More about Ralph Ellison

    About Ralph Ellison

    Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) was born in Oklahoma and trained as a musician at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936, at which time a visit to New York and a meeting with Richard Wright led to his first attempts at fiction. Invisible… More about Ralph Ellison

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 12, 1998 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679776611

    Category: Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 01, 2011 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9780307797391
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