African-American writer Ralph Ellison was a powerful literary voice who helped Americans understand how race and social class shaped their identities in modern society. Narrators Dominic Hoffman and Arthur Morey work together to give texture to this collection of Ellison’s essays. Delivering the preface, Morey brings an academic formality that helps set the tone for the dense prose and searing questions that follow. Hoffman picks up the pace in the soul-searching essays themselves. His rich baritone highlights the historical details behind each essay. He provides the context that makes each entry relevant to the collection and also to listeners, in particular those who may be listening to Ellison's work for the first time. Hoffman's style is easy on the ears, which gives a neutral backdrop to a sensitive subject. M.R. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”
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| BN ID: | 2940169210958 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Publication date: | 01/30/2018 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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