Flying Home and Other Stories
by ELLISON, RALPHFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-01-12
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
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 Six of them remained unpublished during Ellison's lifetime and were discovered among the author's effects in a folder labeled "Early Stories."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 classicInvisible Man. The tales inFlying Homerange 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 Storiesis a historic volume, an extravagant last bequest from a giant of our literature.
Author Biography
Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City in 1914. He is the author of <b>Invisible Man</b> (1952), which won the National Book Award and became one of the most important and influential postwar American novels. He published two volumes of nonfiction, <b>Shadow and Act</b> (1964) and <b>Going to the Territory</b> (1986), which, together with unpublished speeches and writings, were brought together as <b>The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison</b> in 1995. For more than forty years before his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison lived with his wife, Fanny McConnell, in Harlem in New York City.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| A Party Down at the Square | p. 3 |
| Boy on a Train | p. 12 |
| Mister Toussan | p. 22 |
| Afternoon | p. 33 |
| That I Had the Wings | p. 45 |
| A Coupla Scalped Indians | p. 63 |
| Hymie's Bull | p. 82 |
| I Did Not Learn Their Names | p. 89 |
| A Hard Time Keeping Up | p. 97 |
| The Black Ball | p. 110 |
| King of the Bingo Game | p. 123 |
| In a Strange Country | p. 137 |
| Flying Home | p. 147 |
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