Juneteenth (novel)

Ellison began work on his second novel around 1954, following the 1952 publication of Invisible Man and its success. In different interviews, Ellison described his lost manuscript pages were described as "360 pages, and "500 pages", and "about a summer’s worth of revisions". and the story "Cadillac Flambé", published in American Review in 1973 and reprinted many times since. These received considerable critical attention, and there was much interest in Ellison's unpublished work. Although he had written over 2,000 pages by the time of his death, Ellison never completed the novel. ==Publication==

Following Ellison's death, John F. Callahan, named Ellison's literary executor by his widow, He promised that a full version would be made available at a later time. Scott Saul in Boston Review states "The book is more than Ellison fans could expect, yet less than Ellison probably hoped--an ambivalent masterpiece." Longer version A fuller version of the manuscript was published as Three Days Before the Shooting... on February 2, 2010. ==See also==