NP: Juneteenth

[D.]

At 11:36 PM 6/10/99 -0700, Keith Woodward wrote:
>Don't know if someone's already posted on this; if so, sorry.  But,
>
>I was waliking through the mall, on my way to pick up an Obi Wan action
>figure as a gift, naturally, for my best man, when I happened to look in the
>Waldenbooks window.
>
>A portion of the large novel that Ralph Ellison was working on for forty
>years has been released under the title _Juneteenth_.  He didn't finish the
>work before he passed away a few years ago, but the editor claims that the
>published volume consists of one of the more complete sections of it.  
>
>For anyone who's interested...
>
>Keith W


   Hadn't seen this posted yet here, but Ellison's posthumous second novel
has been out for a few weeks now.  The advance info on the novel was that
Ellison started it  right after his magnificent Invisible Man was published
in 1952.  Unfortunately, the original manuscript was destroyed in a fire at
Ellison's second home in Plainfield, Mass. in 1969.  Presumably, he had to
start over again from notes and memory, and was still working on revisions
when he died in 1994, at age 80.  Haven't read it yet, but it just sits on
that "pile" glaring back at me every time I walk past it....


D.