Description

Created between 1954 and 1937 and available nowadays in paperback for the very first time, these thirteen tales really are a powerful distillation of the guru of Ralph Ellison. Six of these remained unpublished during Ellison's lifetime and were found one of the writer's results in a file marked "Early Tales." However they all carry the hallmarks--the thematic achieve, musically layered sounds, and sheer ebullience--that Ellison might provide to his traditional Unseen Man.The stories in Traveling House range in location from the Jim Crow South to some Harlem bingo shop, from the hobo jungles of the Truly Amazing Depression to Wales throughout the Second World-War. By turns lyrical, scathing, pressing, and transcendently smart, Flying Home and Other Stories is just a volume, a luxurious last bequest from the giant of our literature.