- Race relations, Legislators, Fiction, African Americans
In Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator from a New England state, is mortally wounded by an assassin's bullet while making a speech on the Senate floor.
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Grave, contemplative, prestige and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ralph Ellison
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Random House
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780394464572
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Ralph Waldo Ellison was a novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). Research by Lawrence Jackson, one of Ellison's biographers, has established that he was born a year earlier than had been previously thought.
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