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...editors of Ralph Ellison’s posthumously published second novel, "Three Days Before the Shooting..." told an audience at the Harvard Bookstore last night that the celebrated author’s unfinished work is not a masterpiece...
Ellison, whose "Invisible Man" won the National Book Award in 1953, spent the next forty years struggling to compose his second novel...
This experimentation is reflected in the novel, and Callahan hopes that the book will "fill out the picture" of Ellison...
...editors said that the novel, despite and because of it’s unfinished state, can function as a window into the literary master’s mind. Callahan said he hopes the work will humanize Ellison. Instead of being seen as a self-critical perfectionist, it is Callahan’s wish that Ellison be seen as a good-humored man who loved dogs and children and had a "defiant imagination...
There is no novel so great that I cannot put it down. I made it through a hundred and fifty pages of “War and Peace.” I called it quits on “Moby Dick” after the sixth chapter on the subtle complexities of whale oil. “Wuthering Heights” withered after seventy pages. “Gravity’s Rainbow” only lasted nine. I’ve accumulated a pretty impressive list of books that I’ve stopped reading. In fact, my growing...