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NATIONAL BESTSELLER"[A]n outstanding book, a work of incredible virtuosity. Using its newsletter, a world of literature has simply developed two times as tall."--NewsdayFrom Ralph Ellison--writer of the classic novel of African-American experience, Unseen Man--the long-awaited second novel. This is actually the grasp of National vernacular--the rhythms of gospel and jazz and regular talk --in the peak of his abilities, informing a strong, evocative story of the prodigal of the twentieth-century. "Tell me what happened while there is still time," needs the desperate Senator Adam Sunraider towards the itinerate Negro preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman.