ISBN: 0679776613 9780679776611

Category: Fiction / African American & Black / Historical

Page count: 240

Written between 1937 and 1954 and now available in paperback for the first time, these thirteen stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison. Six of them remained unpublished during Ellison's lifetime and were discovered among the author's effects in a folder labeled "Early Stories." But they all bear the hallmarks--the thematic reach, musically layered voices, and sheer ebullience--that Ellison would bring to his classic <b>Invisible Man</b>.<br><br>The tales in <b>Flying Home</b> 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, <b>Flying Home and Other Stories</b> is a historic volume, an extravagant last bequest from a giant of our literature.