Author:
Ellison, Ralph.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Modern Library, 2010.
Descriptionxxix, 1101 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:"The unfinished second novel"--Dust jacket.
Note:Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, this story is a multi generational saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator Adam Sunraider, who's being tended to by "Daddy" Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician turned preacher who raised the orphan Sunraider as a light-skinned black in rural Georgia.