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Flying Home And Other Stories
  • Published: 18 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241215050
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $32.99

Flying Home And Other Stories

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7 July 2016
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18 July 2016
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A collection of the best short fiction from the award-winning author of Invisible Man

Written between 1937 and 1954, these fourteen stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison. Seven of them remained unpublished during Ellison's lifetime and one, 'A Storm of Blizzard Proportions' is now included in Flying Home for the first time. But they all bear the hallmarks that Ellison would bring to his classic Invisible Man: the thematic reach, musically layered voices, and sheer ebullience.

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 twentieth century literature.
  • Published: 18 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241215050
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the authors

John Callahan

John Callahan is a quadriplegic who was paralyzed in an auto accident in 1972, since then he has became a famous cartoonist. He has been profiled on 60 Minutes and NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where Callahan can been seen buzzing around his neighborhood in his wheelchair.
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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, and eventually winning the National Book Award for Invisible Man. Appointed to the Academy of American Arts and Letters in 1964, Ellison taught at several institutions, including Bard College, the University of Chicago, and New York University, where he was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities. Ellison died in 1994.
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