Ralph Ellison
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out. An unfinished novel by the author of Invisible Man.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, this story is a multi-generational saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator Adam Sunraider, who's being tended to by "Daddy" Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician turned preacher who raised the orphan Sunraider as a light-skinned black in rural Georgia.