Flying home ; and other stories
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Flying home ; and other stories
（Penguin modern classics, . Fiction）
Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2016, c1996
- : [pbk.]
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Contents of Works
- A party down at the square
- Boy on a train
- Mister Toussan
- Afternoon
- That I had the wings
- A coupla scalped Indians
- Hymie's bull
- I did not learn their names
- A hard time keeping up
- The black ball
- King of the bingo game
- In a strange country
- A storm of blizzard proportions
- Flying home
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Description
Raw, lyrical and blazing with intensity, these short stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.
'He saw the dark bird glide into the sun and glow like a bird of flaming gold'
Ranging from the Jim Crow South to a Harlem bingo parlour, from the hobo jungles of the Great Depression to Wales during the Second World War, they all display the musically layered voices, soaring language and sheer ebullience that made Ellison a giant of twentieth-century American writing. Written early in Ellison's career, several of these fourteen stories were unpublished in his lifetime, including 'A Storm of Blizzard Proportions' which features in this collection for the first time.
'Approach the simple elegance of Chekhov' Washington Post
by "Nielsen BookData"