Volume 46, Number 13 · August 12, 1999
Ellison's Promised Land
By Robert Stone
Juneteenth
by Ralph Ellison
Random House, 368 pp., $25.00
I'm walking down Elm Street, in the gathering dusk of a Sunday spring evening in New Haven. The streets are still. As I approach the corner of College, a two-tone Camaro pulls up at the red light beside me. The car's a few years older than most others on the road and the driver is a young black man with very close-cut hair and wrap-around shades. But the sound is the thing.
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