Trading Twelves: Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray (Modern Library) - Tapa dura

Ellison, Ralph; Murray, Albert

 
9780375503672: Trading Twelves: Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray (Modern Library)
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ISBN 10: 0375503676 ISBN 13: 9780375503672
Editorial: Random House Inc, 2000

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Book by Ellison Ralph Murray Albert

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Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma in 1914. He is the author of the novel Invisible Man (1952), as well as numerous essays and short stories. He died in New York City in 1994. Random House published Juneteenth, the book-length excerpt from his unfinished second novel,  posthumously in 1999.

Albert Murray was born in Alabama in 1916. A cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, he has taught at several colleges, including Colgate and Barnard, and his works include The Omni-Americans, South to a Very Old Place, Train Whistle Guitar, The Blue Devils of Nada, and The Seven League Boots.  Murray lives in New York City.  

John F. Callahan is Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanitie

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important collection of letters between two great American writers and old friends, baring their hearts to each other about life, work, and the American scene.

When two jazz musicians trade twelves with each other in a jam session, one musician begins by riffing off twelve bars of music, the other musician throws the twelve bars back through his instrument, the first answers, and so on, back and forth, in an ecstatic exchange of ideas and emotions. So it is with these letters, joyful music created by the exchanges between two dear friends. Reading these letters, you sense that each man was the other's lifeline, that the emotional and intellectual companionship they found in each other was unique in their lives. They spill it all out here--their struggles, frustrations, ambitions, fears; thoughts on literary gossip, jazz, photography--and the result is literary history, and a book that reminds you what friendship is all about.

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Editorial
Random House Inc
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0375503676
ISBN 13 
9780375503672
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
368
Editor
Murray Albert, Callahan John F.
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9780375708053: Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray

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ISBN 10:  0375708057 ISBN 13:  9780375708053
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001
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