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Ralph Ellison : A Biography by Arnold Rampersad (2008, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375707980

ISBN-139780375707988

eBay Product ID (ePID)60730011

Product Key Features

Book TitleRalph Ellison : a Biography

Number of Pages704 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicAmerican / African American, Literary, Social Activists, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorArnold Rampersad

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight22.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Reviews"Startling, illuminating. . . . [Rampersad] treats Ellison as a man, not as a deity."- The New Yorker "Astute . . . revelatory. . . . Consistently intriguing." - The Washington Post Book World "Illuminating and richly reported. . . . Rampersad is uniquely qualified to examine the Ellison case." - The New York Times Book Review "Rampersad is as meticulous as he is graceful." - Newsday, "Startling, illuminating. . . . [Rampersad] treats Ellison as a man, not as a deity." --"The New Yorker" "Astute . . . revelatory. . . . Consistently intriguing." --"The Washington Post Book World" "Illuminating and richly reported. . . . Rampersad is uniquely qualified to examine the Ellison case." --"The New York Times Book Review" "Rampersad is as meticulous as he is graceful." --"Newsday", "Startling, illuminating. . . . [Rampersad] treats Ellison as a man, not as a deity." -The New Yorker "Astute . . . revelatory. . . . Consistently intriguing." -The Washington Post Book World "Illuminating and richly reported. . . . Rampersad is uniquely qualified to examine the Ellison case." -The New York Times Book Review "Rampersad is as meticulous as he is graceful." -Newsday, Praise forRalph Ellison "Illuminating and richly reported . . ." -The New York Times Book Review "Absorbing . . . stunning." -South Florida Sun-Sentinel "Riveting . . . exhaustive . . . an intensely researched, elegantly written book" -Los Angeles Times Book Review "In this tremendous biography, Rampersad brings Ellison back down to human scale, relating the writer's remarkable, deeply sad life with reportorial flare and unflinching honesty . . . Rampersad's is a deeply sympathetic biography, but by no means excessively forgiving. Here is Ellison full of rage and talent, vain and ambitious, but fired by a deep moral clarity." -Sunday Star Ledger "With the publication of Arnold Rampersad'sRalph Ellison, we have the first comprehensive treatment . . . elegant and lively prose . . . we now have a 'mighty' biography of this quintessential American life." -Charlotte Observor "Immensely engaging . . . in Rampersad's hands, Ellison's life emerges as one of the essential literary lives of the 20th century . . . Rampersad's exemplary biography, written with a blend of deep sympathy and cool detachment, splendidly achieves the one true task of literary biography: it illuminates the life so that we may better understand what it produced." -Houston Chronicle "Thorough and insightful." -American Heritage "Marvelous . . . In style and structure,Ralph Ellison: A Biographyis, like its subject, unfailingly elegant." -The Tennessean "Compelling and insightful." -The Washington Times "A jewel-like level of social detail . . . illuminate[s] not just the development of the author's vision, but the complex contexts that shape literary creation." -Austin American Statesman "A dependable reference, a compelling story, a cautionary tale . . . Rampersad has triumphed." -The Plain Dealer "Important . . . the definitive life . . . skillfully written, deeply researched" -The New York Sun "Rampersad addresses the nature of Ellison's psyche and makes reasonable connections between Ellison's personal experiences and his writing, and he avoids psychoanalystic overdetermination and cheap mirror work between lived events and the written word. Along similar lines, he deftly deals with the salacious material that a weaker hand would overplay" -Harper's "Compassionate yet devastating . . . subtle insight, painstaking scholarship and elegant presentation" -The Nation "Absorbing . . . fascinating." -Black Florida Life and Style "An invaluable contribution . . . Arnold Rampersad's biography of Ellison is a reserved, dignified, thoroughly researched and well-paced study of the life of one of America's greatest authors. Unlike many literary biographers, who perform hackneyed psychoanalysis or amateur literary criticism on their subjects' lives and works, Rampersad sticks to the events of Ellison's life, rendering them with a refreshing objectivity seldom found in our sensationalist times." -San Francisco Chronicle "Sumptuously researched . . . his subtlety shines." -The Star Tribune(St. Paul) "What a wonderful biography this is, filled with intelligence and understanding of its subject and all the varied milieus in which he lived his long and wonderful life, "Startling, illuminating. . . . [Rampersad] treats Ellison as a man, not as a deity." -- The New Yorker "Astute . . . revelatory. . . . Consistently intriguing." -- The Washington Post Book World "Illuminating and richly reported. . . . Rampersad is uniquely qualified to examine the Ellison case." -- The New York Times Book Review "Rampersad is as meticulous as he is graceful." -- Newsday

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal818/.5409 B

SynopsisRalph Ellison's epochal novel "Invisible Man" won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. In this thoughtful biography, Arnold Rampersad skillfully illuminates a writer who has earned a permanent place in our literary heritage., Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel "Invisible Man," which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison's strange inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigmatic figure. Arnold Rampersad skillfully tells the story of a writer whose thunderous novel and astute, courageous essays on race, literature, and culture assure him of a permanent place in our literary heritage. Starting with Ellison's hardscrabble childhood in Oklahoma and his ordeal as a student in Alabama, Rampersad documents his improbable, painstaking rise in New York to a commanding place on the literary scene. With scorching honesty but also fair and compassionate, Rampersad lays bare his subject's troubled psychology and its impact on his art and on the people about him.This book is both the definitive biography of Ellison and a stellar model of literary biography., Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man , which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison's strange inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigmatic figure. Arnold Rampersad skillfully tells the story of a writer whose thunderous novel and astute, courageous essays on race, literature, and culture assure him of a permanent place in our literary heritage. Starting with Ellison's hardscrabble childhood in Oklahoma and his ordeal as a student in Alabama, Rampersad documents his improbable, painstaking rise in New York to a commanding place on the literary scene. With scorching honesty but also fair and compassionate, Rampersad lays bare his subject's troubled psychology and its impact on his art and on the people about him.This book is both the definitive biography of Ellison and a stellar model of literary biography.

LC Classification NumberPS3555.L625Z8725