Flying Home And Other Stories

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is a fantastically imaginative and powerful piece of writing. It has been a few years since I read it, and I have been wanting to try some of his other work since. And this short story collection seemed like a good place to see what else he has to offer. His prose here......more

Stories exhumed by executors for posthumous collections can impact on an author’s legacy. These stories, if read before the masterpiece Invisible Man, might lead the reader to never approach that staggering leap forward in artistry—however, for those interested in the apprentice phase of Ellison’s c......more

I read this book as a fiction-supplement to another book I am currently reading called The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. As the latter book's title suggest, both books deal with The Great Migration and the effects it was having on people, in the case of this book......more

Una colección de cuentos que valen la pena. Relatos que perduran y que invitan al lector a reflexionar, a pensar y a aprender. Todos los cuentos que se incluyen en este libro tocan temas muy "estadounidenses" pero, además, buscan construir la imagen del afroamericano estadounidense del siglo XX. Vue......more

I love everything that is written by Ralph Ellison. With that being said, I found these stories much different than what I have been used from him. I had no idea what I getting in to with this book. I simply saw it and brought it. And read with the same attitude. This is a collection of his earlier......more