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Chefs don't have time to write. While I was working on Smoke and Pickles, I was running a restaurant — a daily regimen of testing recipes,... Continue »

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Smoke and Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen
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Juneteenth: A Novel

by Charles Johnson

ISBN13: 9780307797360
ISBN10: 0307797368
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Shot on the Senate floor by a young black man, a dying racist senator summons an elderly black Baptist minister from Oklahoma to his side for a remarkable dialogue that reveals the deeply buried secrets of their shared past and the tragedy that reunites them. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

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\Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City in 1914. He is the author of the novel Invisible Man (1952), winner of the National Book Award and one of the most important and influential American novels of the twentieth century, as well as numerous essays and short stories. He died in New York City in 1994.

John F. Callahan is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He is the editor of the Modern Library edition of The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison and is literary executor of Ralph Ellison's estate.

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ISBN:: 9780307797360
Subtitle:: A Novel
Publisher:: Vintage Books
Author:: Ralph Ellison
Subject:: main_subject
Subject:: all_subjects
Publication Date:: 20000613
Binding:: ELECTRONIC
Language:: English
Pages:: 400

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