Juneteenth : a novel
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Author
Ellison, Ralph,
Contributors
Callahan, John F., 1940- editor.
Johnson, Charles, 1948- writer of preface.
Published
New York : Vintage International :, 2000.
Edition
First Vintage International edition.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 368 pages ; 21 cm
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Juneteenth
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
FIC PBK
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LC Subjects
African American clergy -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Legislators -- Fiction.
Passing (Identity) -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Southern States -- Fiction.
Other Subjects
Historical fiction.

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Published
New York : Vintage International :, 2000.
Format
Book
Edition
First Vintage International edition.
Language
English

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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.

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